1 40 23 https://noyesletters.org/files/original/dc5cb19af0bfeeb62c2f5fd2574f0fb4.pdf 4499b39f2aa4494c039551d3a8be73d7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Guilford Aug 12 1844 Dear Sister I should not perhaps have written so soon had it to been for a partic ular reason. Esq Hosmer started for New England last Thursday with his wife son and two daugh ters. He is going to Vermont and informed me that he should travel down Connecticut river from there to Mass. I urged him to cross the river and give you a call which he seemed inclined to do. As he goes in a private conveyance he will not probably be in your part of the country under two or three weeks. I thought I would drop you a line so that if he should give you a call he might not take you entirely by surprise. Besides I did not know but you might be from home and might not see him [?earn?] if he should call unless you had notice. He goes in a very com fortable way having a covered two horse carriage and can journey at his leisure. I hope he will call and if he had not so much load of his own I should be glad to have you return with him. When I see any of my neighbours going cart it generally excites a desire to go with them. But it is difficult for me to leave. Perhaps you would like to hear something about us though if Mr Hosmer should call they can tell you more than I can write. It is a time of health in the place. Mr Samuel Harris is dead. He died about two weeks since, and there is reason to fear without that preparation which is ne cessary in order to be happy here after. He has left a large family who will sensibly feel his loss. The Baptists are building quite a splendid brick meeting house a few rods east of the Congregational house. They calculate to have a bell so that we may expect before long to hear "the sound of the church going bell" in these back woods. The Congregationalists have no minister at present. There are some reports about Mr Cham berlain unfavorable to his moral character I know not whether true or false. I think the Congregational Church will most likely run down. Dr Hopkins has moved away. Zoa, Whitney and his wife have gone to the Methodist and some others talk of moving away. Mrs Dix remains with us yet and I rather think she will continue to do so. Two or three professors of religion have moved into the place who will probably unite with our church. Our Sabbath school does not prosper remarkably Mr. Chaplin is not a first rate superintendent. We have no bible class this summer. We have a pretty good congregation on the Sabbath. I am delivering a course of sermons on the ten com mandments. Yesterday I preached on the seventh. The house was well filled, many having a curios ity to know what I would say on this difficult subject. There is need enough to preach on this subject though I do not know as it will do any good. You perhaps recalled that Bartlet Benton and Ann Harris your scholar were pretty intimate last summer. They have badly disgraced them selves and their parents feel pretty bad about the matter. I believe the parent are quite as much to blame as the children. Mrs Harris is quite unwell and I think her troubles wear upon her health. We have a new store opened which makes [?form?] in our little vilage. Alex ander Whiteside has commenced the study of medicine, and has joined the masonic lodge. He thinks of teaching again next winter. Mr Wase is now here and calculates to stay a few weeks. Mrs N enjoys good health, and is in good spirits. She has rather too much work to do. Sarah has been to school but will now be at home and relieve Mrs N. of some [?care?]. Edward, Francis and Martha have also been attending school. Henry we have had to keep at home to help his Mother. He is a very good hand to take care of little Harriet. Gilbert grows finely and makes quite a sprightly little boy, full of mischief and of course needs much watching. The babe is healthy and the mother thinks quite a decent little girl. We think [--to me--] of trying to leave some of the older children to [?braid?] in order to busy them when we have no school. The state of religion among us is low. The prayer meeting on Thursday is thinly attended. It does ap pear to me that the world is uppermost in the minds of most professors of religion, though there are some who seem engaged. The difficul ty between Mr Dowd and Mr Harris is not yet settled, though there is some prospect that it may be before long. I do not think they can expect to prosper, while harbouring such feelings as they do towards each other. The cause of religion suffers from the conduct of such mem bers. I sometimes think it is no wonder that the cause of religion makes no more advancement considering the conduct of its professors. Two or three disorderly professors can counteract all the efforts of the minister and the rest of the church. I should be glad if you were here to assist in instructing a bible class and other ways. I should undertake the instruction of a bible class myself if my health would persist, but I am afraid with my health to undertake it. I hope the church in Westmoreland will labour without the pastor and not put the burden wholy on him I have not yet received any letter from Judge Baker A correspondence with him or any other of my old friends would be very agreeable to me. I have sometimes thought of writing a letter to the church of W. but as I am a stranger to the pastor it might seem out of place. [Note: the following is written vertically in left margin] Mrs N unites with me in love to you all. I have written a mixed up mess. come and see us soon as you can. When I commenced this I supposed Mrs N would write some but as she is being this morning at the wash tub, and we are calculating to go out and make some calls this afternoon she thinks it impracticable but intends to write you before long. I want to hear how you all are especial ly our aged mother. You must therefore write soon. I hear nothing from brother J. If you know any thing about him please to communi cate it to me. [Note: the following is the address written vertically] Guilford, O 25 August 14 Miss Zoa Noyes Westmoreland Newhampshire [Note: letter continues horizontally] Tell brother A that if he does not write me soon I shall get out of patience and write him again. If he was incapable of writing I would have nothing to say, but he has already given evidence that he is up to the business so that I shall be under the necessity of attributing his neglect to disinclination. I wrote mother the [illegible] July and shall hope for an answer from her and also from Sister N. Affectionately yours V. Noyes [u]write soon[/u] 吉尔福德 1844 年 8 月 12 日 亲爱的妹妹 我也许不应该 这么快就写出来了，一定是有特殊原因的。 Esq Hosmer 开始前往新英格兰 上周四与他的妻子儿子和两个女儿 条款。他要去佛蒙特州并通知我 他应该去康涅狄格州旅行 从那里到马萨诸塞州的河流。我敦促他 过河给你一个电话，他 似乎倾向于这样做。当他进入私人 运输工具他可能不会在你的 全国部分地区不到两三周。 我以为我会给你写信 如果他应该给你打电话，他可能不会 完全让你大吃一惊。另外我没有 知道，但你可能在家 如果他应该打电话可能看不到他 除非你有通知。他进入了一个非常com 有盖的两匹马车的好方法 并且可以悠闲地旅行。我希望他会 打电话，如果他没有那么多负担 我应该很高兴你回来 和他一起。当我看到我的任何邻居去 购物车它通常会激发与他们一起去的愿望。 但我很难离开。也许你 想听听关于我们的事 如果霍斯默先生打电话，他们可以告诉你 超过我能写的。这是一个健康的时代 在那个地方。塞缪尔·哈里斯先生死了。他 大约两周后去世，这是有原因的 没有那种准备就害怕 为了以后在这里过得开心，就必须停止。他 留下了一个大家庭，他们会明智地感到 他的损失。浸信会正在建造一个相当壮丽的 砖砌会议室东边几杆 公会之家。他们计算有 一个钟声，以便我们可以期待不久听到 “教堂的钟声”在这些后面 树木。公理会没有部长 现在。有报道称张伯伦先生不利于他的道德品质 我不知道是真是假。 我觉得 公理会很可能会运行 下。霍普金斯医生已经搬走了。佐亚，惠特尼 和他的妻子去了卫理公会和一些 其他人谈论搬走。迪克斯夫人留在 我们还没有，我宁愿认为她会继续这样做。 两三名宗教教授搬进来 可能会与我们的教会联合的地方。 我们的安息日学并没有显着繁荣 卓别林先生不是一流的警司。 今年夏天我们没有圣经课。我们有 安息日的一个很好的会众。我是 就十诫讲道。 昨天我在七号讲道。 屋子里人满为患，很多人都很好奇 知道我会在这个困难上说什么 主题。有足够的需要就这个主题进行宣讲 虽然我不知道它会有什么好处。 你也许还记得 Bartlet Benton 和 安哈里斯你的学者非常亲密 上个夏天。他们严重羞辱了他们 自己和父母都觉得很不好 此事。我相信父母是相当的 作为孩子的罪魁祸首。哈里斯夫人 身体很不舒服，我认为她的烦恼很严重 关于她的健康。我们开了一家新店 这在我们的小村庄里形成了形式。亚历山大·怀特塞德 已经开始研究 医学，并已加入共济会会所。 他想明年冬天再去教书。瓦斯先生 现在在这里，计算要停留几个星期。 N 夫人身体健康，精神振奋。她 有太多的工作要做。莎拉已经 上学，但现在在家 减轻 N 夫人的一些关心。爱德华，弗朗西斯 和玛莎也一直在上学。 亨利，我们不得不待在家里帮助他 母亲。他是一个很好照顾的手 小哈丽特。吉尔伯特长得很好，使 一个活泼的小男孩，充满了恶作剧 当然需要多多关注。宝贝是 健康，母亲认为相当体面的小 女孩。我们想试着留下一些 大一点的孩子为了忙而编辫子 他们在我们没有学校的时候。 我们中间的宗教状况很低。祈祷 周四的会议出席人数很少。在我看来，世界是至高无上的 大多数宗教教授的思想， 尽管 有些人似乎订婚了。多德先生和哈里斯先生之间的困难还没有 安顿下来， 虽然有一些前景 可能用不了多久。我不认为他们可以 期望繁荣，同时怀有这样的感情 就像他们对彼此所做的那样。的原因 宗教因这种记忆的行为而受苦 贝尔斯。有时我觉得这也难怪 宗教事业不再进步 考虑到其教授的行为。二 或者三个无序的教授可以抵消所有 牧师和教会其他成员的努力。 如果你能来帮忙，我会很高兴的 指导圣经课和其他方式。我应该 自己接受圣经班的指导 如果我的健康会持续下去，但我很害怕 以我的健康来承担。我希望 威斯特摩兰的教会将在没有 牧师而不是放重担全在他身上 我还没有收到贝克法官的任何信 与他或我的任何其他人的通信 老朋友会对我很满意。 我有时想写一封信给 W 的教堂，但因为我对 牧师这似乎不合适。 [注：以下内容是竖写在左边距] N 夫人和我一起爱着你们所有人。我写了一个混乱的混乱。尽快来看看我们。 当我开始这件事时，我以为 N 夫人会 写一些，但正如她今天早上在 洗个澡盆，我们打算出去 今天下午打几个电话，她认为 它不切实际，但打算在此之前给您写信 长。我想听听你们有多特别 是我们年迈的母亲。因此你必须写 很快。我没有听到 J 弟兄的消息。如果你 知道他的任何事请交流 给我吃。 【注：以下为竖写的地址】 吉尔福德，O 25 8 月 14 日 佐亚·诺伊斯小姐 威斯特摩兰 新罕布什尔 [注：字母水平继续] 告诉A兄弟，如果他不给我写信 很快我就会失去耐心开始写作 又是他。如果他不会写我 无话可说，但他已经 有证据证明他能胜任这项业务 这样我就有必要归因于 他的疏忽懒惰。我给妈妈写了[无法辨认] 七月，希望得到她的答复 也来自 N. 修女。您的 V. Noyes 深情 尽快回信 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from V. Noyes to her Sister, August 12, 1844 Subject The topic of the resource Religion; Clergy; Children; Brothers and sisters; Death Description An account of the resource In this letter to her sister Zoa, Varnum talks about various acquaintances of theirs. Mr. Samuel Harris has died, and Bartlet Benton and Ann Harris have disgraced themselves due to the fact that they "were pretty intimate last summer." He also talks about how his children are doing and his vocation as a minister. He believes that the state or religion in his town is low and complains about professors of religion. He concludes by informing Zoa that he has not heard from brother J nor brother A. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections,<a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1844-08-12 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_934 brothers children churches construction death health ministers sermon sisters travel https://noyesletters.org/files/original/bda17d86e055339b9920e2185e43fcb3.pdf 774a18abd1f824d7aa936b9749ca4d59 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Guilford July 1st 1844 Dear Mother, If Sister N. has received the letter I wrote to her a few weeks since you will probably be expecting one from me about this time. I have been so long in the practice of writing you on my birth day that I think I shall most likely continue the practice so long as God in his providence shall see fit to contin- ue us both in this world. The return of my birth day is calculated not only to call my [--my--] minf to serious reflections upon the past, but to remind me of my obligations to my parents especially my aged mother. It would be a peculiar gratifica tion to me to [u]see[/u] as well as [u]think[/u] of my mother. but while deprived of the privilege of seeing you, it is pleasant to [u]think[/u] of you and to send some of those thoughts to you. I have entertained some hope of yet seeing you in Ohio, but owing to your infermities I dare not insist upon it as much as I should otherwise do. I was very much gratified with the long visit Sister Z made us, and should be glad to see her ^[again] or my other sister or brothers. I begin to have some thoughts of again visiting N.E. whether I shall come, or when, I cannot now tell. I feel as though the Lord had been good to me in sparing me so long, when I have been so unprofitable in his service. I have been permit- ted ^[to] number forty years and begin to wear the marks of old age. Gray hairs are not only [u]here and there[/u] upon me ;but my head is becoming con- siderably frosted. My family have all yet been spared to me, and at present are all in health. Mrs N. enjoys very good health at present but she can not bear very much. A little over doing would upset her entirely. We have a very good girl. Sarah is almost as good to us as a hired maid, better than some. She is going to school this summer and we keep Henry at home to help his mother. He is almost as good to tend the babe and help about the house as a little girl, altogether better than Edward the oldest. We find we have quite a variety in our little family. Our children seem to differ considerably in thier dispo- sitions. Edward can saw wood for the stove milk and would do a considerable work if e had any one to work with him, but to set [--a--] boys to work alone is of but little use. They make but little head-way. I am in hopes that should they live, in the course of a few years they will be able to manage my farm. Little Harriet our youngest is rather [?fitful?], though she grows well and seems healthy. The wooping cough is making its appearance in the neighbourhood and perhaps our children may have it in the course of the summer. I have been troubled some with a cough for a few weeks but think it is some better. I find a plenty of employ- ment. I am engaged a little in cultivating the soil. Have a small piece of corn and potatoes and a little garden and find it difficult to keep down the weeds. I am also getting quite a stock of bees, have eight swarms and expect one or two more. I have lost two swarms, they either went off or were robbed. I find my bees, farm, and other worldly matters too often get into my study, or rather into the mind while in the study. I do not know but my mind is becoming too much secularized. I often complain of my people for their worldly-mindedness, perhaps they will soon begin to complain of me on the same ground. I do not wish to become so much immersed in the world or so much attached to the objects of theworld but that I may be willing to have them all with cheerfulness whenever God shall give the summons. It is good to feel that we are strangers and pilgrims on earth, and that we are seeking a better country, that is an [?heavenly?]. The things of this world so far as we need them should be received thankfully as blessings coming from God. But these things should never be suffered to lead our minds away from God or make us negligent in discharging out obligations to him. I find my congregation in this place grad- ually increasing notwithstanding all thte opposition with which we meet. Yesterday our little meetinghouse was well filled. The people appear to be attentive and I cannot but hope that the Lord has blessings in store for us though I am fully sensible that we do not deserve them. I am preaching upon the ten commandments, have got as far as the third. Find the study of them interesting and profitable to myself. Two or three families have moved in who we hope will be a help to us. I find it extremely difficult to keep up our weekly prayer meeting through the summer, but few attend. I have some difficulties in the church or rather between two or three mem bers of the church, which I have laboured hard to settle but with rather poor success. These are the things which wEar a minister down altogether more than the labour of preaching the gospel. Though I have many difficulties to encounter I love my people and could not well bear to have them. I believe I have many true friends and I suppose I have some enemies. The Oberlin Church is at present destitute of a pastor. The Baptists are building a meeting- house in the place which is the fourth in our little [?village?]. In Wadsworth where brother Fay formerly lived it has been very sickly the past spring. Many with whom I was well aquainted have gone the way of all the earth. I was fearful that the disease would spread into this place but it has not. It was a species of Erysipelas which affected the throat. I am glad to hear that the church in W. is prospering so well. If you have got a good minister I hope you will keep him, and sustain him. This frequent changing of ministers is bad for both ministers and people. I hope you will endeavour to live near to God and have your mind much on the things of another world [Note: written sideways in the margin] Mrs N. sends her love to you and all our connections. Give my love to all my old friends to whom it may be acceptable. of which you are no doubt sensible you must soon be an inhabitant. Many of our connections are already in the eternal world and we shall soon be of their number. Soon we must put off this tabernacle. Of that we may be prepared for the solemn event of exchanging worlds and for the endless state beyond. The Saviour will sustain his disciples and meet out grace to them according to their day. [Note: Sideways in the middle section] Guilford O 25 July 2 Mrs Mehitable Noyes Westmoreland New Hampshire [Note: Letter continues after address] None of those who trust in him shall be forsaken. We may well rejoice that we have such a saviour, and while we feel our own weakness and in- ability to enter the combat with our spiritual enemies, we may adopt the language of the apos tle and say, Thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. May you have grace to sustain you and the infirmites of old age and finally have an abundant entrance administered to you into the everlasting king- dom of our Lord Jesus Christ. From your son (I hope you will answer this soon) Varnum Noyes Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Varnum Noyes to his Mother, July 1, 1844 Subject The topic of the resource God; Heaven; Children; Daughters; Sons; Agriculture; Clergy; Church Description An account of the resource In this letter to his mother, Mehitable, Varnum writes about how life in Guilford is going. He talks about a visit from his sister Zoa, how he has aged, and his children. He compares his children to each other and worries about their health. He discusses the farm, including the fact that some of his bees have gone missing. He concludes by discussing his work at the Presbyterian Church (it has been a bit difficult) and salvation through Christ. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections,<a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1844-07-01 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_932 children Christianity churches farming ministers mothers Presbyterian Church https://noyesletters.org/files/original/ce8eb497ad14327ddc4e17e374f8de94.pdf ea2a0bd41b8f35baf01064c7c5237570 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Guilford Medina Co Ohio June 17 1836 My Dear Parents, It is a long time since I have written to you and I do not know but you begin to think me an ungrateful son. I have however many things to attend to that I cannot find much time to write letters, and were it not that you were strong claims on a porter of my time I should not think I could ever more spend time to write you. I received a letter from sister N. sometime since and was gratified to hear of your health and welfare. Although I am far distant from you I do not forget you nor lose my interest in your welfare. You are perhaps expecting a visit from me this summer. And I should be very much gratified in coming but I have concluded that I must wait another year. My people have made commendable efforts to have me preach in Guilford all my time this year and as I have been prevented from preaching a number of sabbaths by sickness and have been absent four weeks attending the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Pittsburg I feel as though I could not reasonably have them destitute any more this sum mer. I have all along made my calcula tions to visit you this summer, but it appears to be my duty to relinquish the object. I mentioned that I had been sick. I have not been confined to my bed at any time, but had symptoms of the billious fever and was obliged to make use of power- ful machines to throw it off which greatly weakened me and rendered me unable to preach for three or four sabbaths. I was quite feeble when I set out for Pittsburg but thought that possibly a journey might prove ben- eficial to my health, and had it not been for the long and tedious session I should have claimed considerable advantage from the journey And even now I am better than when I left and am in hopes that I shall pass through the season without a ton of fever. the other members of my family are well. It may be news to you to learn that we have been presented with a second son, a fine healthy boy whom we call [u]Henry Varnum[u/]. We have now two lovely little boys which we hope to bring up for the Lord. Sister Fay is now with us. She deeply feels the loss of her husband and I fear will grieve so much as to destroy her health and life. Although I have been afflicted since I have been in this state yet I have good reason for gratitude. I have an agreeable companion and a pleasant home. I should be exceedingly gratified in visiting my relations in New England especially my aged parents, but I question whether you would think it admiseable in my pres ent circumstances. I intend to come another year if the Lord permits. I should be very much gratified to have you come and visit me and spend six months or a year with me. I will endeavor to make you as comfort able as I can if you will come. Father Walker has been here twice and I think he is older than you. I have built me a house so I that I can accommodate you pretty well for this country. If you should come in the fall and tarry till spring, you would be in no danger of suffering from the climate of this country. But I hope that whether we shall see each others faces again in the flesh or not we shall mak it our principal busi ness to prepare for the future world. You dear parents have almost reached the period of three score and ten, an age reached by few and you cannot but look who your- selves as standing on the brink of eternity. You will son have done with all things terrestrial and go to your reward. And I hope you will spend your few remaining days in making preparations for the future world. Somehow or other we are apt to let the world engross our attention too much and neglect the concerns of our souls. But soon the things of this world will appear as vain and empty as the bubles of the deep. Then to have an intrust in the Saviour will be of more value than worlds. I think that one point in which all christians are defi cient is studying the bible. I am confident that we cannot study the bible too much or too carefully follow its directions. The state of religion in this plase is [Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] holy love, and I know because almost [Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] I do not know of any class of men [Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] more patience than ministers of [Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] ful. We may preach the most affec [Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] and our people will appear to literal attention and then go away and forge [Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] every thing they have heard and live as [Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] they were to remain in this world forever. [Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] I do not know what to do in order to [Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] up the stupidity of this church and exc[Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] them to [?actively?] in the presence of God. [Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] sometimes think that I am standing in [Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] way, and the Lord will not bless this [Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] ple because I am here. We have been [Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] led the past year with cases of discipl [Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] The church is divided and the cause i [Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] [?pased?] to reproach by professors of [Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] The whole Presbyterian church is [Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] agitation and I do not know but [Note: illegible because the paper is ripped] will be a division soon. I was exceed ingly worried with the proceedings of the general assembly and unless the state of things shall alter for the better shall hope never to allow another meeting of this body. I believe the Presbyterian Church is too large and ought to be divided. I trust you on [illegible] from the unhappy contentions which are reaching the Presbyterian Church. May the Lord overrule all these things for his own glory and bring all things to a happy and glorious [illegible]. From yours Varnum Noyes If sister Z was here I think she might teach school to good advantage. It was my inten tion if I came to New England this summer to have brought her back with me if she was willing to come, but as it is I do not know as she will know any opportunity to come but if she should I hope she will improve it. W send many teachers in this country who are well gratified. [Note: this page is folded into three parts. In the middle section, the following is written] 25 Dr Josiah Noyes Westmoreland Newhampshire guilford ohio June 22 [Note: the following text can be found on the third section of this page] If I should be released from preaching for any length of time I should take to set up a school and I am not sure but I could in this way do more good than by preaching. A good school mistress can have a dollar and a half per week and an ordinary master twelve dollars per month. If sister Z is in clining to consumptive complaints this coun try would most likely be conducive to her [?math?]. Consumptions are real in this coun try. Billious fevers are the most prevalent of any diseases. I think upon the whole this is a healthy country. 吉尔福德 1844 年 7 月 1 日 亲爱的妈妈， 如果 N.姐妹收到了 几周后我给她写的信 可能会期待我的一个 这次。我练了这么久 我想在我生日那天给你写信 我很可能会继续练习这么久 上帝在祂的旨意中认为适合继续—— 在这个世界上让我们俩在一起。我出生的回归 天算了 不仅要唤我的心 对过去的严肃反思，但要提醒 我对父母的义务，尤其是 我年迈的母亲。这将是一种特殊的满足 让我看到和想到我的母亲。 但在被剥夺见你的特权的同时， 很高兴想到你并送一些 这些想法给你。我有一些希望 在俄亥俄州见到你，但由于你的 我不敢坚持 否则我应该这样做。我非常高兴 随着 Z 姐妹对我们的长期访问，应该 很高兴再次见到她或我的其他姐妹或兄弟。 我开始有了再次访问新英格兰的想法 我是否会来，或者什么时候来，我现在不能说。 我觉得主对我很好 饶了我这么久，当我如此 在他的服务中无利可图。我已被允许 到四十岁，开始穿 岁月的痕迹。白发不仅在这里而且 在我身上；但我的头脑变得越来越混乱 明显结霜。我的家人还没有 幸免于难，目前都身体健康。 N.夫人目前身体很好，但 她很不忍心。做的有点过头了 会让她彻底心烦意乱。我们有一个很好的 女孩。莎拉对我们几乎和雇工一样好 女仆，比一些好。她要去上学 今年夏天，我们把亨利留在家里 帮助他的母亲。他几乎同样擅长照料 作为一个小女孩的宝贝和帮助房子， 完全胜过最年长的爱德华。我们发现 我们的小家庭有很多种类。我们的 孩子们的性格似乎有很大的不同 位置。爱德华会为炉子锯木头 牛奶，如果 e 有任何人与他一起工作，但要设置 男孩独自工作是没有多大用处的。他们做了 但很少有进展。我希望他们应该 生活，在几年的过程中，他们将 能够管理我的农场。我们的小哈丽特 最小的是相当不稳定，虽然她长得很好，而且 看起来很健康。百日咳正在出现 在附近，也许我们的孩子可能 在夏天的过程中拥有它。我已经 有些人咳嗽了几个星期，但 认为它更好一些。我找到了很多工作。 我有点从事耕种土壤的工作。有 一小块玉米和土豆，还有一点 花园，发现很难控制杂草。 我也有很多蜜蜂，有八只 蜂拥而至，并期待更多一两个。我已经失去了 两群人，要么逃跑，要么被抢劫。我发现 我的蜜蜂、农场和其他世俗的事情太频繁了 进入我的书房，或者更确切地说，进入我的脑海 研究。我不知道，但我的心正在变得 太世俗化了。我经常抱怨我的人 因为他们的世俗思想，也许他们很快就会 开始以同样的理由抱怨我。我不 希望变得如此沉浸在这个世界中 非常依附于世界的物体，但 我可能愿意愉快地拥有它们 每当上帝发出召唤。这很好 感觉我们是地球上的陌生人和朝圣者， 我们正在寻找一个更好的国家，那就是 一个天上的。就我们而言，这个世界的事物 需要他们应该被感激地接受为祝福 来自上帝。但这些东西不应该 让我们的思想远离上帝 或使我们疏忽履行义务 给他。我逐渐发现我的会众在这个地方 不顾一切反对而增加 我们遇到的。昨天我们的小聚会所 装满了。人们似乎很专心 我不能不希望主有祝福 为我们准备好了，尽管我完全明白 我们不应该得到他们。我在讲十 诫命，已经到了第三条。寻找 对他们的研究对我来说很有趣和有利可图。 我们希望有两三个家庭搬进来 将对我们有所帮助。我觉得非常困难 通过 夏天，但很少有人参加。我有一些困难 在教会中，或者更确切地说，在教会的两三个成员之间， 我辛苦了 解决，但收效甚微。这些是 更让部长失望的事情 胜过传福音的劳苦。虽然我 遇到很多困难我爱我的人 并且无法忍受拥有它们。我相信我 有很多真正的朋友，我想我也有一些 敌人。欧柏林教堂 目前缺乏 一位牧师。浸信会正在建立一个会议- 房子在第四个地方 我们的小村庄。在沃兹沃思，费伊兄弟在哪里 以前住过 过去很病态 春天。我熟悉的许多人都有 走了全地的路。我很害怕 疾病会蔓延到这个地方，但是 它没有。它是丹毒的一种， 影响了喉咙。我很高兴听到教会 在 W. 的繁荣如此之好。如果你有一个 好部长，我希望你能留住他，并且 支持他。这种频繁更换部长 对部长和人民都不利。我希望你 将努力生活在与上帝亲近的地方并拥有 你的心思多在另一个世界的事情上 [注：侧写在空白处] N. 夫人向您和我们所有的关系表达她的爱。把我的爱献给我所有可以接受的老朋友。 你无疑是明智的，你必须 很快成为居民。我们的许多联系 已经在永恒的世界里，我们将 很快就会成为他们的号码。很快我们必须推迟 这个帐幕。我们可以为此做好准备 交换世界的庄严事件和 为超越无尽的境界。救主会 支持他的门徒，满足他的恩典 他们根据他们的日子。 【注：中段侧身】 吉尔福德 O 25 7月2日 Mehitable Noyes 夫人 威斯特摩兰 新罕布什尔 [注：地址后接字母] 没有一个信靠他的人会被抛弃。 我们可以很高兴我们有这样的救世主， 当我们感到自己的软弱和不... 用我们的精神进入战斗的能力 敌人，我们可以采用使徒的语言说， 感谢上帝赐给我们 借着我们的主耶稣基督得胜。愿你 有恩典来支持你和弱者 晚年终于有丰富的入口 赐给你进入永远的君王—— 我们的主耶稣基督的王国。来自你的儿子 （我希望你能尽快回答这个问题） Varnum Noyes Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Varnum Noyes to his "dear Parents," June 17, 1836 Subject The topic of the resource Parents; Clergy; Presbyterian Church; Sons Description An account of the resource In this letter to his parents, Varnum begins by apologizing for not writing more and discusses how he will not be visiting this summer. He informs his parents that he and his wife have had their second son, Henry Varnum. He would like his parents to visit him. He concludes by musing about Christianity, and the Bible--although much of the letter is cut off because the page has been ripped. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1836-06-17 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_932 Bible family illness ministers parents preaching Presbyterian Church travel https://noyesletters.org/files/original/6d257bfb6649f49e9064cf978fdba90a.pdf a0f30373b7843aae137e3f31daa8601e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Philadelphia March 5, 1839 Having but little to do this afternoon I have thought I would com mence a letter to you though I may write a day or two before I put it in the mail in hopes of having a line from you. I arri ved here last evening after a tedious journey I found the traveling exceedingly bad. I left Wooster on Saturday and got as far as Paris a distance of about forty miles about mid night and concluded there to spend the Sab bath. The rest of the passengers went on Sab bath morning. Here owing to the [?badomen?] of the roads and the consequent derangement of the stages I was obliged to stay till tues day morning Tuesday we proceeded on as far as New Lisbon a distance of 26 or 28 miles and no urgency could prevail on them to carry me any farther that night. Thursday morning we proceeded on our journey and arrived at Smith's Ferry on the Ohio about 1 o clock in the afternoon. There were two steam boats in sight but they had gone by and so I had to tarry there till night About dark I made out to get aboard of a boat and arrived in Pittsburg thursday morning at 1 oclock. Was detained in Pittsburg till Friday morning, when I took the stage for Philadelphia. Owing to the mud and snow our progress was slow. Was in the stage all of the first night and most of the second. Spent the Sab bath in Huntington. The day of rest was very acceptable though I was so sleepy I could scarcely keep awake at meeting. Heard an agent of the Assemblies board of Foreign Missions in the day time and an agent of the Seamen [?friends?] society in the evening. Monday morning took the stage. The weather was extremely cold though pleasant through the day. Travelled all night and arrived in Harrisburg just in time to take the morning cars which brought us to Philadelphia last evening about 6 o clock. Last night I [?turned?] at Dr Greens and to day have taken lodging in the family of a Mr Evans where I receive the kindest attention. The law suit has made but little progress. They have com menced taking testimony to day. The pros pect is that the case will be rather tedious and what will be the decision we of course know not. My health is good with the exception of fatigue. I hope that during my absence you may enjoy the smiles of providence and the consolations of religion. It is perhaps a good thing at times to put the effects of our own weak men. But I know of nothing better for christians than to trust in the Lord and go forward in the path of duty. Though he slay me yet will I trust in him is the language of an ancient saint and it should be the language of every child of God. I shall reserve the remainder a day or two in hopes of a letter from you 9th Called this morning at the post office in hopes of finding a letter from you but found none. Trust you are getting along well. The law suit progresses tardily almost a week is gone and the testimony on the part of the prosecution is not yet finished. So I may rest for the present [illegible] I shall not probably be called up till the last part of next week. I am at present inclined to think that I shall not go to New England, but return to Ohio as soon as I can be spared. A number of my old friends are here, Mr Sathrop, Judge Brown &c. How the case will terminate I know not. The Lord reigneth and let him reign. Such business as I am now engaged in is not very congenial to my feelings. My people need not much expect me home till about the last of March. I hope they will not cease to assemble together for prayer and religious worship. Take good care of yourself and our dear children till my return. Take a cathartic occasionally if necessary. Your affection ate husband Varnum Noyes Miss Lois W. Noyes Guilford Medina Co Ohio 费城 1839 年 3 月 5 日 无事可做 今天下午我以为我会开始给你写一封信 虽然我可以写 在我把它放入邮件前一两天 希望能收到你的来信。我昨晚到达这里 经过一段乏味的旅程 我发现旅行非常糟糕。我离开了 周六伍斯特到达巴黎 午夜时分大约四十英里的距离 并在那里结束了安息日。 其余的乘客在安息日早上出发。 这里由于 [?看不到的词?] 的 道路和随之而来的混乱 我不得不待到星期二早上的阶段。 周二我们继续 至新里斯本，距离 26 或 28英里，没有紧迫感 那天晚上他们把我带到了更远的地方。 星期四早上我们继续我们的 旅程并抵达史密斯渡轮 俄亥俄州下午 1 点左右。那里 有两艘蒸汽船在眼前，但他们有 过去了，所以我不得不在那里呆到晚上 天黑了，我想登上一艘 星期四乘船抵达匹兹堡 早上1点。在匹兹堡被拘留 直到星期五早上，当我上台时 为费城。由于 泥泞和雪地，我们的进度很慢。 第一个晚上都在舞台上 和大多数第二个。在亨廷顿度过安息日。 休息日是 非常可以接受，虽然我很困，我 开会时几乎不能保持清醒。 听说议会的代理人 白天的外国使团和 海员协会的代理人 晚上。星期一早上上台。 虽然天气非常冷 愉快的一天。走遍了所有 晚上刚到哈里斯堡 是时候乘坐带来的早晨汽车了 我们昨晚大约 6 点到费城 时钟。昨晚我转向“绿党”医师 并且今天已经寄宿在 我收到的“埃文斯”先生的家人 最亲切的关注。诉讼有 取得了进展，但进展甚微。他们今天已经开始作证。 前景 是这种情况会相当 乏味的，会是什么决定 我们当然不知道。我的身体很好 除了疲劳。我希望 在我不在的时候，你可以享受 天意的微笑和安慰 的宗教。这也许是件好事 次把我们自己弱的影响 男人。但我知道没有比这更好的了 基督徒不如信靠主 在职责的道路上前进。 虽然他杀了我但我会相信 他是古代圣人的语言 它应该是每个人的语言 上帝的孩子。我将保留剩余的 一两天希望收到你的来信 9th 今天早上在邮局打电话希望 找到一封你的信，但没有找到。 相信你们相处得很好。法律诉讼 进展缓慢 几乎一个星期过去了 控方的证词是 还没有完成。所以我可以暂时休息 [无法辨认] 我可能不会被召唤 直到下周的最后一部分。我目前 倾向于认为我不会去 新英格兰，但我一回来就回俄亥俄 可以幸免。我的一些老朋友 萨思罗普先生和布朗法官来了 案件将如何终止我不知道。 主掌权，让他掌权。这样的 我现在从事的业务不是 非常符合我的感受。我的人 不用太期待我回家 三月的最后一天。我希望他们不会 停止聚集在一起祈祷和 宗教崇拜。好好照顾你自己 和我们亲爱的孩子，直到我回来。拿一个 必要时偶尔宣泄。你深情的丈夫varnum Noyes Miss Lois W. Noyes 吉尔福德麦地那公司 俄亥俄州 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Varnum Noyes to Lois Noyes, March 5, 1839 Subject The topic of the resource Wives; Travel; Class actions (Civil procedure) Description An account of the resource In this letter to his wife, Varnum writes about his unpleasant travels to Philadelphia. He discusses a lawsuit he is testifying in that it appears he traveled for. The case is taking very long and it is probable that he will not be home till the end of March. He misses his congregation and wishes his wife well with all their kids. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1839-03-05 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_931 Christianity court case travel weather https://noyesletters.org/files/original/cbaa61e0a93c94d8df9c298e50447566.pdf 7c90795a9cb5904e349dcea4d7332200 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Guilford March 15, 1850 My Dear Sister you may perhaps by this time begin to think that I am not very obedient to your order or request to "write very soon." I have delayed till now in order to give you some definite information in reference to my future plans and pros- pecs. I have been living the year part in doubt and uncertainty as to my future field of labour. I have at last conclu- ded to move into Wayne township when I have made arrangements to la- bour for one year with the expectation of continuing longer if the Lord will. It is a little painful to leave my old and pleasant habitation where I have spent so many years, but duty seems now to call me somewhere else, and I feel willing to obey its demands. In the course of my ministry in Guilford, I have passed through many trials and afflictions. Nothing has been more wearing to my health and constitution than the stupidity of the church and difficulties among the members. But I more felt like leaving this church till a little more than a year ago, when I found that some who had been among my most substantial friends had turned again me. They brought no accusation against my character or preaching but the simple plea that my usefulness in the place was ended. A great many ministers much better than myself have been turned away on the same ground. This plea, I consider as a mere cloak. Some numbers get a grudge against a minister for reasons which they are a- shamed to declare and have not the hones- ty to avow and come up with the plea that his usefulness is at an end. This they profess to believe and they manifest their faith by their works. It does not take many men to bring a minister's usefulness in a place to a conclusion if they go about it in earnest. Two or three can accomplish the work. It was so in Wooster, Brother. McCandlish was a man of eminent piety, good talents and very labouri- ous, but there were a few members of his church that made him so uncomfortable that her resigned his pastoral charge. Churches that send away their ministers without good reasons will not be likely to prosper. The Presbyterian church in this place will prob- ably break up and perhaps become extinct. The north part of the congregation have gone off and are attempting to build a meeting house but they are getting divided among them- selves in regard to the site. They have no preach- ing and are not likely to have. The baptists have employed a man for one year. But what about Wayne? In the first place they have a good meeting house about the size of the one in Guilford. Most of the members are good substantial farmers, some of them wealthy. The number of church members is small probably about the same as that of Guilford church. They appear very friendly as yet and I believe are nearly or quite unan- imous in wishing me to come and labour among them. I shall receive of the congre gation only two hundred and fifty dollars salary this year but we hope to obtain one hundred more from the board of do- mestic missions. I have purchased a small place about one mile from the meeting house. I have to give six hundred dollars for two acres of ground and the building, thereon. The buildings are a house built of hewed long, a barn, a shoemakers shop, spring-house and smoke-house. The. dwel ling house is rather small for so large a fam ily as mine, having only two lower rooms and three small chambers. I calculate to change the shoemakers shop into an office or stu- dy. I have been in the habit of thinking that a minister ought to have an office like a lawyer where [?men?] might consult with him alone whenever they please. There are a number of fruit trees upon the place, and I flatter myself that we shall have good neighbors. The house stands back twenty of thirty rods from the road so that we shall be quite [?retired?]. It is 7 miles from Wooster. You are perhaps aware that a railroad is constructing from Wooster to Pittsburg. When this is done we can [--god--] go to Wooster, and from there go almost to your door by railroad. I flatter myself that I may be the means of doing good in my new field of labour, As I shall have but little land I hope to give myself wholy to the work. I shall rent my farm to Mr Barnard and calculate to leave it the 10th of April. My family are well at present. Children are growing up fast, the two oldest are already taller than their mother. A member of our vilagers are going to Califor nia to get gold. How must more ready are men to peril their lives for gold that to do good in the world. I suppose brother Farrer takes a deep in- terest in the grave questions before congress at the present time. It will be something new if California shall be refund admission into our confederacy simply on the ground of excluding slavery. Can you not come out and see us this summer? We should be exceedingly gratified to see you and brother Farrer. [Note: the following is the heading for the letter written vertically] Guilford Mar 16 Mrs. Zoa N. Farrer Marlborough Newhampshire When you write me again unless it be very soon you will please direct you letter to Wayne, Wayne Co. Ohio. If you see or hear from our Westmoreland friends I wish you would inform them of the change in my part office address. I sympathize with you in your poor state of health. I have never had firm health since my sickness at Hanover and have reason to think that my con- stitution was injured by the treatment I received from the physicians of that place yours truly V. Noyes 吉尔福德 1850 年 3 月 15 日 亲爱的姐姐 你也许可以通过 这个时候开始觉得我不是很 听从您的命令或要求“写 很快。”我已经推迟到现在 给你一些确切的信息 关于我未来的计划和职业 胸肌。我一直生活在这一年 对我的未来的怀疑和不确定 劳动领域。我终于决定搬进韦恩镇 当我带着期望安排了一年的劳动时 如果主愿意，可以继续更长的时间。 离开老我有点痛苦 我度过的宜人居所 这么多年，但责任似乎现在 给我打电话，我觉得 愿意服从它的要求。在课堂中 我在吉尔福德的事工，我已经通过了 经历了许多考验和磨难。 没有什么比我的健康更有害了 和宪法比愚蠢 教会和困难之间 成员。但我更想离开 这个教堂直到多一点 一年前，当我发现有些人 一直是我最充实的 朋友们又转向了我。他们带来了 没有指控我的性格或 讲道，但我的简单请求 在这个地方的用处已经结束。一个伟大的 许多部长比我好得多 已经在同一个地方被拒之门外。 这个请求，我认为只是一个斗篷。 有些数字对 部长因为他们羞于宣布并且没有诚实的原因—— 你要承认并提出请求 他的用处已经结束。这他们 自称相信，他们表现出他们的 因他们的行为而有信心。不需要很多 男人在一个地方带来部长的有用性 如果他们认真去做，就会得出结论。 两三个人就可以完成这项工作。它是 所以在伍斯特，兄弟。麦坎德利什是个男人 非常虔诚，才华横溢，非常勤劳，但他的几个成员 让他如此不舒服的教堂 她辞去了牧师的职务。教堂 无良地遣散他们的大臣 理由不太可能成功。这 这个地方的长老会教堂会试探—— 巧妙地分手，也许会灭绝。 北部的会众已经走了 关闭并正在尝试建立会议 房子，但他们之间正在分裂- 关于网站的自己。他们没有讲道—— 荷兰国际集团，不太可能有。浸信会 雇了一个人一年。但是什么 关于韦恩？首先他们有 一个大小差不多的会议室 一个在吉尔福德。大多数成员都是 优秀的农民，其中一些 富裕。教会成员人数 小大概和那个差不多 吉尔福德教堂。他们看起来非常友好 到目前为止，我相信几乎或相当一致地希望我来工作 其中。我将只收到会众的两百五十美元 今年的薪水，但我们希望获得 来自国内传道部的另外一百人。我已经购买了一个 距离大约一英里的小地方 会议室。我得给六百 两英亩土地和 建筑物，其上。建筑物是房子 由砍长的谷仓、鞋匠建造而成 商店、弹簧屋和烟熏屋。这。对于我这么大的家庭来说，住宅相当小，只有两个较低的房间 和三个小房间。我计算改变 鞋匠进了办公室或书房。我一直有这样想的习惯 部长应该有一个像 男性可以咨询的律师 只要他们愿意，他就独自一人。那里 上面有许多果树 地方，我自以为我们会 有好邻居。房子站着 三十根杆中的二十根从路上 这样我们就可以彻底退休了。这是7英里 来自伍斯特。你或许已经意识到 一条铁路正在从伍斯特建造 到匹兹堡。完成后，我们可以 去伍斯特，然后从那里去几乎你的 铁路的门。我自夸我 可能是我行善的手段 新的劳动领域，正如我将拥有的那样 小小的土地，我希望把自己完全献给 工作。我要把我的农场租给先生 巴纳德并计算离开它 4 月 10 日。我的家人目前都很好。 孩子们长得很快，两个最大的 已经比他们妈妈高了。 我们的一个村民要去加利福尼亚淘金。必须多准备 男人为了金子冒着生命危险去做什么 世界上的好。 我想法雷尔弟兄对国会面前的严肃问题很感兴趣 在目前的时间。这将是一些东西 新如果加州应退还入场 仅仅基于 不包括奴隶制。你能不出来吗 今年夏天见？我们应该 非常高兴见到你和兄弟 法雷尔。 [注：以下为竖写字母的标题] 吉尔福德 3 月 16 日 Zoa N. Farrer 夫人 马尔堡 新罕布什尔 当你写信给我再次，除非它非常 很快你会直接给你写信 到俄亥俄州韦恩公司的韦恩。 如果您看到或 我希望听到我们威斯特摩兰朋友的来信 你会通知他们变化 在我的部分办公室地址。 我同情 与您的健康状况不佳。 我有 自从我在 汉诺威，有理由认为我的体质因我接受的治疗而受损 从那个地方的医生那里你真的是 V. Noyes Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from V. Noyes to his Sister, March 15, 1850 Subject The topic of the resource Presbyterian Church; Clergy--Salaries, etc.; Buildings; Budgeting; California Gold Rush, 1848-1852; Slavery; California--History--1846-1850; Sickness Description An account of the resource Varnum writes to his sister about his future plans, which, though uncertain, inlcude leaving Guilford and working in Wayne. He reflects on his time at Guilford and at times criticises the Presbyterian Church and its members. Varnum believes that the Presbyterian Church in Guilford, as well as other places, might go extinct because of ministers resigning or being forced to quit. He discusses salaries, budgeting, properties; especially a hosue 7 miles away from Wooster. Varnum is critical about a memeber of his village is travelling to California to get gold. He mentions the debate regarding California's admission as a state and slavery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1850-03-15 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_907 buildings children churches family farming health houses ministers politics Presbyterian Church https://noyesletters.org/files/original/1c203b14cfbf5cac2b06279ec6eef599.pdf 6d8f468b82f2c6bc46b0e81a81247c74 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Guilford Ohio Oct 7 - 1833 My Dear Sister Z I received on the 3rd of July by the hand of Mr Connerse a letter from you and also one from Sister N. These letters I have perused and reperused with much pleasure and satisfaction. I do not now recollect which of my sisters I wore last, and thought some of addressing you both conjointly, but fina- lly concluded as letters are in some meas- ure common property at both ends of "[u]Clinton's big ditch[/u]." I would address this to you and the next to Sister N. Your letters together with a call from Dr Con- nerse was to me a real treat. Mr Connerse brought me two pair of footings, a val uable present from Mother as I suppose for which she will please to accept my sincere thanks. As I wrote to brother Augustus since I was married, giving all necessary intelligence upon that subject, I need not say an thing relative to it here. The season has been unusually sickly in this town owing as is supposed to the spring freshets which raised the Chippewa to an unusual height and inundated considerable of the low land lying on its banks. The scarlet fever pre- vailed in the spring, and in the latter part of summer the billious fever has been prevailing. Of the last, I had an attack in the latter part of July, but by prompt and efficient remedies I succeeded in breaking up the fever, though I was very much reduced and mostly confined to my bed for a fortnight. I have been gain- ing strength ever since with exception of one or two ill terms, and my health is now about as good as usual. I suppose you will expect me this time to say some- thing about the [u]wife[/u]. Her health has been good ever since she came here, unless she has had some slight touches of the disease commonly called [u]home-sickness[/u]. She took good care of me in my sickness and I trust will in ever respect answer my expectations. I find that worldly cares are somewhat increased by marriage, though I hope to get more settled by and by also not to let the cares of this world so much interfere with my studies. We have been keeping house, or rather keeping room for about three months. We began almost with out furniture or provisions, but have been getting one thing after another till we begin to live quite comfortable. We want but one thing more to make us happy and that is a [u]heart wholy devoted to the service of God[/u]. I expect in a few weeks to move into a log cabin. I have been buying and selling land considerably of late. The people moved the site of their meetinghouse after I purchased last win- ter, and in consequence I have sold the lot of land I then bought, and have pur- chased again near the site they last fixed upon and where the house is now raised. For the first lot I gave two hundred dollars and sold it for two hundred and seventy five. The last, which contains about fifty acres, twenty five improved having a log barn, two cabin houses, a cabin shop, a good well and a small orchard, cost me six hundred dollars. As this is situated on both sides of the turnpike and is near the village it is considered very cheap. Land is rising with astonishing rapidity. I shall get possession of my place in about ten months if nothing unexpected occurs, when you may imagine [illegible] [?seated?] down comfortably in a snug log cabin by a [u]good log fire[/u], and glad should I be if you could be in our little circle. I saw Mrs Connerse about a fortnight ago and was glad to learn that you thought some of coming and spending some time in Ohio. I wish you could. We greatly need school teachers. I have no doubt you might spend your time here very pleasantly and profitably. The state of religion is extremely low in this region. About two weeks since we held a five days meeting in Harrisville. Mrs N. and myself attending the meeting from the beginning to the close. The latter part of the meeting was very interesting. The church seemed to be humbled under a sense of unfaithfulness, and some cases of hope- ful conversion occurred towards the close of the meeting. We staid at Dr DeWitts, the place where Sarah Connerse now resides. We contemplate noting other protract- ed meetings in the county soon and may perhaps have one here in the course of the winter. I have already joined a much more extensive acquaintance with a much more extensive acquaintance with the people in this region than I ever had in any other place I have lived. I have many sterling friends in this country and hope to spend my days in this region somewhere. I wish when you write me again you would send me the family record as I forget some of you ages. I ardently desire to see you all but when I shall, if ever, God only knows. We shall all soon have done our work and be in eternity, and may we all at last meet in heaven. [Note: Address here] The season past has been very productive though the thought in the latter part of sumer was considerably severe. We have apples and peaches in abundance. I wish you to write me all about the people in W as I feel deeply interested in their prosperity and wilfare. And while you enjoy the sweets of the pa- ternal fireside, forget not your Ohio brother. My love to all who may inquire after me. Yours in fraternal affection V.N. [Note: Address described later for clarity] guilford ohio [?out?] 25 Miss Zoa Noyes Westmoreland New hampshire [Note: upside down] Guilford Ohio Oct 4th 1833 Rev. V. Noyes 1833 年 10 月 7 日至 1833 年 10 月 7 日，俄亥俄州吉尔福德 我亲爱的Z姐姐 我7月3日收到 康纳斯先生亲手写了一封信 来自你，还有一个来自 N 修女。 这些信件我已经仔细阅读并重新阅读 非常高兴和满足。 我现在不记得我的哪一个 我最后穿的姐妹们，我想了一些 共同向你们俩讲话，但最终得出结论，因为信件在某种程度上是两端的共同财产 “克林顿的大沟”。我会解决这个问题 给你和旁边的 N 姐妹。你的 康纳斯博士的来信和电话对我来说是一种真正的享受。康纳斯先生 给我带来了两对立足点，我猜是妈妈送给我的贵重礼物 为此她愿意接受我的 真诚的感谢。当我写信给兄弟时 自从我结婚以来，奥古斯都付出了一切 关于该主题的必要情报， 我不必说与 在这里。这个季节异常 在这个小镇上生病了 春天的新鲜植物 奇普瓦到一个不寻常的高度和 淹没了相当大的低地 躺在它的银行。猩红热预 在春天有效，在后者 夏季的一部分，热病有 一直盛行。最后，我受到了攻击 在 7 月下旬，但及时 我成功的有效补救措施 退烧，虽然我很 大大减少，主要限于我的 睡了两周。从那以后我一直在获得力量，但例外 一两个病句，我的健康 现在和往常一样好。我想 这次你会期待我说一些关于妻子的事情。她的健康有 自从她来这里以来一直很好，除非 她有一些轻微的接触 疾病通常称为思乡病。 她在我生病时照顾我 我相信会永远尊重答案 我的期望。我发现世俗的关心 婚姻有所增加，虽然 我也希望越来越安定 不要让这个世界的牵挂太多 干扰我的学习。我们已经 保留房子，或者更确切地说，保留空间 三个月左右。我们几乎从 没有家具或用品，但有 得到一件又一件 直到我们开始过上舒适的生活。 我们只想要一件事让我们 快乐，那是一颗全心全意的心 为上帝服务。我预计在几个 几周搬进小木屋。我有 大量买卖土地 最近。人们移动了他们的网站 我去年冬天买的教堂，结果我卖掉了 然后我买了很多土地，并在他们最后的地点附近再次购买 确定房子现在在哪里 提高。第一批我给了两百 美元，然后卖了两百多块 七十五。最后一个，包含 大约五十英亩，二十五英亩 有一个原木谷仓，两个小屋，一个小屋 商店，一口好井和一个小果园， 花了我六百美元。因为这是 位于收费公路两侧 并且在村庄附近它被认为是 非常便宜。土地正在以惊人的速度上升 速度。我将占有我的位置 如果不出意外，大约十个月后 发生，当你想象 [无法辨认] 坐着时 舒适地躺在舒适的小木屋里 一个很好的原木火，如果你愿意，我会很高兴 可能在我们的小圈子里。我看见了夫人 Connerse 大约两周前 很高兴得知你想了一些 来和花一些时间在 俄亥俄州。我希望你可以。我们非常需要 学校教师。我毫不怀疑你可能 在这里度过愉快的时光 有利可图。 宗教状态极低 这个地区。自我们举办以来大约两周 在哈里斯维尔举行了为期五天的会议。 N 夫人和我本人参加会议的时间是 从开始到结束。后半部分 会议非常有趣。这 教会似乎在某种意义上被贬低 不忠，以及一些有希望的转变的案例发生在接近尾声 的会议。我们呆在德维茨博士， 莎拉康纳斯现在居住的地方。 我们考虑注意到其他长期—— 很快在县里召开会议， 也许这里有一个 冬天的过程。我已经加入了 更广泛的了解 更广泛的了解 这个地区的人比我以往任何时候都多 在我住过的任何其他地方都有过。我有 这个国家有很多优秀的朋友 并希望在这度过我的日子 某处地区。 我希望当你再次给我写信时你会 把家庭记录寄给我，因为我忘记了一些 你们年龄。我热切地渴望见到你 除非我会，如果有的话，只有上帝 知道。我们很快就会完成我们的 工作和永恒，愿我们 大家终于在天堂相遇。 [注：地址在这里] 过去的赛季非常富有成效 虽然后半部分的想法 夏天相当厉害。我们 有大量的苹果和桃子。 我希望你给我写所有关于 我对 W 的人深感兴趣 在他们的繁荣和福祉中。 和 当你享受父爱炉边的甜蜜时，不要忘记你的俄亥俄兄弟。 我对所有可能询问的人的爱 我。 你的兄弟情谊 V.N. [注：为清楚起见，稍后描述地址] 吉尔福德 俄亥俄州 出 25 佐亚·诺伊斯小姐 威斯特摩兰 新罕布什尔 [注：倒置] 1833 年 10 月 4 日，俄亥俄州吉尔福德 牧师 V. Noyes Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Varnum to Sister Z, October 7, 1833 Subject The topic of the resource Family; Scarlatina; Health; Land use Description An account of the resource Varnum writes to his sister Zoa about past letters he has gotten from her and his other sisters. He has written to Augustus since he got married. There has been a lot of sickness in town this season, including scarlet fever. Varnum had an attack in the latter part of July but now his health is back to normal. His wife, Lois has been healthy but has been experiencing homesickness. Varnum is worried about the state of religion in the area. He mentions the land he has bought and how he plans to cultivate and live on it. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-10-07 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_923 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <a href="https://www.geonames.org/5156627/guilford.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guilford</a>&nbsp;<br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5094550/westmoreland.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Westmoreland</a>&nbsp;<br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5157003/harrisville.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harrisville</a> construction food health houses illness presents sisters https://noyesletters.org/files/original/332f1592ad137fa554da646b917fef21.pdf 303062e160e6d4ce93a91dd37f0ac99a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Guilford Medina Co Ohio Apr 5 1839 Ever Dear Miss Walker Your last bearing date Fev 9th was duly received and its contents in the highest degree gratifying and satisfactory. I should not have answered it quite so soon had it not been for the delinquency of your Wadsworth friends. [?A?] I there yesterday and learned that hey would not write just yet I thought I would anticipate them in this respect. They will however write shortly. Br F and myself have been to Talmadge this week to attend the meeting of Portage Presbyt ery. The meeting was considerably interest ing though the state of religion within these boundaries lamentably low, there having been no revival in any of these churches the past year. They adopted a resolution recommending to the churches under their care to require as a condi- tion of church membership a pledge of total abstinence from ardent spirits except as a medicine or a [?triffie?] in them. Tis is right ground and should it be generally adopted by our churches the cases of church discipline would be comparatively few. The state of religion in all this region is lamentably low and the churches are in much commotion. I received the report of the Temperance Society at just the right time, as I was about pre paring an address for our people and needed the facts which it contained. I addressed the Tem Soc in this place the 26th of Feb. when we received an accession to our number of ten, mostly young men. This good cause is gaining ground in this place. The winter, which has been remarkably mild, is now past and gone and the time of "singing of birds" is come. In a few days the ground will again be covered with herbage and the forests with leaves. Time is rapidly passing away and one after another of our neighbours is dropping into the grave. I look forward with pleasing anticipations to the time when I shall again see you, but my plans and calculations are so often thwarted that I hardly dare to hope for their fulfilment. I have pur- chased fifty acres of land at the centre of the town at four dollars per acre, and have employed a man to clear a few acres. I was very fortunate in the pur chase and have no doubt that it would sell at any rime for considerably more than I have as it is one of the best prices of land in the township. There is as yet no building upon it, and as I can easily [?finance?] house-room I may not build the present year. [Note: the following is written vertically in the margins] [illegible] I send an order upon the Missionary Society I wish your relations to bear your [illegible] to this country for which I will satisfy them when I see them. write soon. I happen to observe the first day of May as a day of fast ing and prayer for the blessing of God on the [illegible] which may be found [illegible] and worse you will write with [illegible] I hope you will set out for this country soon as convenience will permit. I am glad your father is coming, think it will be gratify ing to him to see the country and become acquainted with some of our good people. Mrs R is very desirous of seeing you. I found on my return from Talmadge Mr Fay's bother and wife from the [?west?] [--with--] at his house. They calculate to spend a few days in Wadsworth and then proceed to New England. Since I engaged in this place for the present year, I have had earnest invitations to labour in other places and to become assistant editor of the Hudson Observer ad Telegraph. I however shall probably contin ue here for the present unless something un- foreseen [?prevents?] you requested my opinion last year [?related?] to taking a dismission from [illegible] church in Midway. I should think you had better [illegible] it a little. There will be no need of any publishment in Midway, as licences of marriage from the court and not publish- ments are the necessary prerequisites of marriage in this country. And this plan is much better that that in New England of disturbing public worship with such noise as was wont to be made by Capt. M. In regard to the way of coming I would just say that if you consult economy a line boat on the canal will be found the cheapest and the packet the most expeditions, the expense try one [illegible] about one half as much as the other. Line boats proceed 50, or 60 miles per day, packets 80 or 90. [u]Take care of your head while passing under bridges[/u]. did I know what time you would be at Cleveland I would meet you there, but as I cannot tell and it may be near the Sabbath which is busy time with me I think perhaps [Note: the following is written vertically in the left margin] Back in his letter to Mrs F expressed a strong desire to see the [u]not[/u] [illegible] which privilege hope he will be [illegible] yours in affection and [illegible] Varnum Noyes you had better take a boat up the Ohio canal form Cleveland to New Portage which is only seven miles from Wadsworth somewhat nearer to Wadsworth than you would see at this place. Lay in a good stock of patience or it will be exhausted before you get half way to this country. Hope you will have a safe and pleasant journey [Note: the following is the address] 25 Mill Lois Walker Medway Mass guilford Ohio April 2 1839 年 4 月 5 日，俄亥俄州吉尔福德梅迪纳公司 永远亲爱的沃克小姐 您的最后生育日期 2 月 9 日 被正式收到，其内容在最高 程度令人满意。我不应该 这么快就回答了，如果不是 为了你沃兹沃思朋友的犯罪行为。 我昨天在那里，了解到嘿 还不会写 我以为我会 在这方面期待他们。他们 但是很快就会写出来。 F弟兄和 我这周去过 Talmadge 参加 Portage 长老会的会议。会议颇受关注 尽管内部的宗教状况 这些界限可悲地低，有 这些都没有复兴 过去一年的教堂。他们采用了一个 建议教会的决议 在他们的照顾下，要求作为教会成员的条件 完全戒除炽热的精神 除了作为药物或小事 他们。这是正确的理由，应该 它被我们的教会普遍采用 教会纪律的例子是 比较少。宗教状况 在所有这个地区都是可悲的低 教会在很多地方 骚动。 我收到了禁酒协会的报告 在正确的时间，因为我正在为我们的员工准备地址并且需要 它所包含的事实。我向圣殿讲道 2 月 26 日这个地方的社会，当我们 收到加入我们的数量 十个，大部分是年轻人。这个好理由 正在这个地方取得进展。 那个冬天，格外显眼 温和的，现在已经过去了，时间已经过去了 《鸟语花香》来了。在几天内 地面将再次被覆盖 草本植物和有叶子的森林。时间 正在迅速逝去，一个之后 我们的另一个邻居正在下降 进入坟墓。我高兴地期待 期待我再一次的时候 见你，但我的计划和计算 经常受挫，我几乎不敢 希望他们的实现。我在中心购买了五十英亩的土地 该镇以每英亩四美元的价格出售，以及 雇了一个人来清理一些 英亩。我很幸运地购买了，毫无疑问它会 随时以更高的价格出售 比我拥有的，因为它是最好的之一 乡镇土地价格。那里 还没有建立在它之上，并且作为 我可以很容易地资助我可能的房间 不建今年。 [注：以下内容垂直书写在页边空白处] [无法辨认] 我向传教士协会发出命令，我希望你的亲属承担 你[无法辨认]这个国家，当我看到他们时，我会满足他们。 尽快回信。我碰巧将五月的第一天视为斋戒日 ing 和祈祷上帝保佑 [无法辨认] 可能会发现 [无法辨认] 更糟糕的是你会用 [无法辨认] 希望你早日启程前往这个国家 方便的话。我很高兴你的 爸爸来了，觉得会很欣慰 让他看到这个国家并成为 认识我们的一些好人。 R 夫人很想见你。 我从 Talmadge 回来时发现 费先生的麻烦和来自西方的妻子 在他家。他们计算花费 在沃兹沃思待几天然后继续 到新英格兰。自从我从事这个地方 今年以来，我认真 邀请到其他地方劳动和 成为 Hudson Observer 的助理编辑 广告电报。然而，除非有不可预见的事情阻止，否则我可能会暂时继续在这里。你上次征求我的意见 与 [无法辨认] 进行讨论相关的年份 中途岛的教堂。我应该认为你有 更好[难以辨认]它一点点。将没有必要 中途岛的任何出版物，作为许可证 婚姻的必要条件来自法庭而不是出版物 在这个国家。而且这个计划要好得多 那个在新英格兰令人不安的公众 用惯常的噪音敬拜 由上尉 M. 关于 来了，我只想说，如果你咨询 运河上的一条线船将是经济的 找到最便宜的包 远征，费用尝试一个[难以辨认] 一半是另一个。划线船 每天行驶 50 或 60 英里，包 80 或 90 个。 [u]路过时要注意头部 桥梁[/u]。我知道你几点钟吗 在克利夫兰我会在那里见到你，但作为 我不知道，它可能在安息日附近 我想这对我来说很忙 [注：以下内容在左边距垂直书写] 早在他给F夫人的信中就表达了强烈希望看到不[难以辨认]的特权 希望他 [无法辨认] 你的感情和 [无法辨认] Varnum Noyes 你最好乘船沿俄亥俄运河而上 从 Cleveland 到 New Portage 距沃兹沃思 7 英里 比你想象的更靠近沃兹沃思 在这个地方。保持良好的耐心 否则在你得到一半之前它就会耗尽 通向这个国家。 希望你会有一个 安全愉快的旅程 【注：以下为地址】 25 米尔·洛伊丝·沃克 梅德韦弥撒 吉尔福德俄亥俄州 4 月 2 日 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Varnum to Miss Walker, April 5, 1839 Subject The topic of the resource Church discipline; Temperance--Societies, etc; Death; Land use; Travel Description An account of the resource Varnum writes to Lois Walker about church business. He mentions attending a meeting of the Portage Presbytery with "Dr. F" that discussed the state of religion. The churches in the area are in a state of commotion over the current low state of religion in the area. The winter has been mild and he remarks that time is passing by "after another of our neighbors is dropping into the grave". Recently, Varnum bought fifty acres in the middle of town for four dollars an acre. He wishes Miss Walker a safe and pleasant journey and gives her travel advice. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Reverend Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1839-04-05 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_921 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <a href="https://www.geonames.org/5156627/guilford.html">Guilford</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5175496/wadsworth.html">Wadsworth</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/11919979/new-england.html">New England</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5150529/cleveland.html">Cleveland</a> boats churches seasons temperance https://noyesletters.org/files/original/2c90f402dfba58a1d3829725dcc7fa72.pdf ed8744610e795c744cf1095fbda81232 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document [Not: Upside down at the top of the page] Received Henry's Sermon July 4th Seville July 1, 1887, My Dear Children As this is my birth day I suppose you will expect a letter from me. Owing to my feeble state of health, I shall not attempt to write but one letter to my children in China. Through the goodness, forebear- ance and long suffering ^of God, I have been permitted to close the 83rd year of my life and begin my 84th year. Though I have had my trials and afflictions, yet upon the whole I can hon- estly say, Goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life. My bl[--l--]es- sings have been great and innumerable. I have had a considerable amount of sickness but have always re- ceived the kindest care and attention from my beloved wife and children. I have been called to pass through one trial the past year that I did not expect. As I was several years older than my wife, I thought I should be the first to leave the world; but God has seen fit to order it otherwise and I do not question his wisdom in so doing. It was a source of great consolation that she suffered so little in her sickness and her mind was so calm and comfortable. Her labours, trials and sor- rows are now passed and she is at rest, and I have no reason to murmur or complain though I feel my loss. July 2nd, I did not finish my letter yesterday and will finish it today. I requested my children not to give me birthday pres- ents [--presents--], [--and--] but when I went into my chamber yester- day in the forenoon I found my rocking chair loaded with birthday presents, thus disre- garding my request. As their disobedience was not criminal I can easily overlook it. In the forenoon we had only our own family and Hattie Kerr, in the afternoon five members of my bible ^class made me a visit and Mr Notestein gave us a call. The weather was extremely hot or there would probably have been more of my bible class present. The interview was very agreeable and pleasant. I had to use the conversation ^tube Martha gave me to carry on conversation with them and with but one at a time. The farmers are now very busy in [?rearing?] their crop of hay which is very good. The weather is favorable though oppressively hot. Next week they will cut their wheat. This is now done by a self binding machine and is soon over. Next Wednesday I expect to see any [u]dear little grandchildren[/u]. I received a letter from Henry's wife yesterday informing me that they were com ing immediately after the 4th of July. We are all enjoying comfortable health. I often look at that spot in the cemetary, where reposes the body of my dear wife, which is in plain sight. How soon my body will be resting beside hers the Lord only knows, With much love Your father Varnum Noyes [注：页面顶部倒置] 收到亨利的 7月4日讲道 塞维利亚 1887 年 7 月 1 日， 我亲爱的孩子们 因为这是我的出生 我想你会 期待我的来信。 由于我虚弱的状态 健康，我不会尝试 只写一封信给 我在中国的孩子。 借着上帝的良善、忍耐和长久的苦难，我有 被允许关闭第 83 我生命中的一年，开始我的 第 84 年。虽然我有过 我的试炼和苦难， 但总的来说，我可以诚实地说，善良和怜悯 一直跟着我 我生命中的日子。我的祝福是伟大的 无数。我已经有了 相当数量的 生病但一直得到最亲切的照顾 和我的关注 亲爱的妻子和孩子。 我被要求通过 通过过去的一次试验 我没想到的一年。 因为我大了几岁 比我的妻子，我以为我 应该是第一个离开的 世界;但上帝看见了 适合订购，否则 我不质疑他的智慧 这样做。这是一个来源 非常令人欣慰的是，她 在她身上受的苦太少 生病了，她的心 如此平静和舒适。 她的劳苦、考验和悲伤现在都过去了， 她在休息，而我有 没有理由抱怨或 抱怨虽然我感到我的损失。 7月2日， 我没有完成我的 昨天和将要来信 今天完成它。 我要求我的孩子不要 给我生日礼物，但是当我 昨天中午我走进我的房间，我发现 我的摇椅装满了 生日礼物，因此无视我的要求。作为他们的 不服从不是犯罪 我很容易忽略它。在 下午我们只有我们的 自己的家人和海蒂可儿，在 下午五位成员 我的圣经课让我参观了 诺特斯坦先生给我们打了电话。 天气非常 热或可能会有 更像是我的圣经 上课。采访是 非常愉快和愉快。 我不得不使用对话管 玛莎让我继续 与他们交谈并 一次只有一个。 农民现在很忙 在饲养他们的干草 这是非常好的。天气 是有利的，虽然是压迫性的 热的。下周他们将削减 他们的小麦。现在完成了 通过自动装订机和 很快就结束了。下周三 我希望看到任何可爱的小宝贝 孙子。我收到了一个 昨天亨利妻子的来信 通知我他们是 com 7 月 4 日之后立即进行。 我们都在享受舒适 健康。我经常看那个地方 在墓地里，安息着 我亲爱的妻子的身体，这是 一目了然。多久我的身体 只会安息在她的主身边 知道，充满爱 你的父亲 瓦努姆·诺伊斯 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Varnum to his Children, July 1, 1887 and July 2, 1887 Subject The topic of the resource Birthdays; Health; Sickness; Death; Aging; Hearing aids; Cemeteries; Hay--Harvesting; Wheat--Harvesting; Agricultural machinery; Weather Description An account of the resource Varnum writes this letter to his children in China on his 84th birthday. He reflects on his blessings and challenges, such as his wife's death a year ago. Varnum says that he used the conversation tube that Martha gave him in order to talk to the guests during his birthday. Then, he writes about farmers, new farming machinery, and the weather. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1887-07-01; 1887-07-02 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_919 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <a href="https://www.geonames.org/1814991/people-s-republic-of-china.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People's Republic of China</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5171681/seville.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Seville</a> birthdays death family marriage https://noyesletters.org/files/original/a55f3a2d3c292b66490857b455a97074.pdf 938fd1f409f2ba4235f3522f5b18bacc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Received June 19 Guilford June 9. 1864 Dear Son Night before last we received from you a letter, photograph and picture of your buildings. They were all very acceptable. We often hear from the company by others who write home but rather pre- fer to hear from you directly. I suppose before this you have re- ceived a letter which we sent by Styles Hosmer, also a can of butter and one of apple butter. June 15. When I had written the few lines above. I learned that Edward had just dispatched a letter to you and thought I would delay finish- ing it a few days. We received a newspaper from you night before last and conclude you are well. We have received letters lately from Harriet and Martha. They are well Henry and Harriet had been exposed to the small pox and had been vaccinated, I suppose, for the kine pox. What might be the affect of mingling the two together I do not know. I have some fears that it might not do very well. Mar- tha we expect home the 4th of July and Henry and Harriet about the middle of July. I rather think that Harriet would enjoy herself about as well at home as in camp. A mourn ful event took place in our village night before last. It was the death of William Turner. He went to bed as usual and apparently in about his usual health. About ten o clock his wife heard him groan and endeavoured to awaken him but could not. She called to her neigh- bours several of whom came in in a short time but he was dead. It is a very severe and un expected stroke to his family. The funeral is to take palce tomorrow at 2.O.clock P.M. The reason for keeping him so long is to give his friends in Penn. an opportunity of attending the funeral if they wish. I can hard ly realize that Mr Turner is dead Last sabbath evening he lighted our church for an evening meeting. The pulpit lamps not giving a very good light, he took them out and filled them after I was in the desk, filled them for the last time. He will be missed very much in our church. He has sometimes taken part in our prayer meetings since you left. He was a good deal em- barrassed by I told he would soon overcome it by perseverance. We learn from Martha's letter that Charles Dix is sick, but have not said any thing to his parents about it supposing that if he wished to have them know it he would send them word. You may perhaps have heard that John Morgan has made another raid into Kentucky. A Cynthiance he cap- tured some twelve or fifteen hundred of the national guards from this state. He captured I believe about the whole of the 171 regiment and part of the 168. They made considerable resist ance before they surrendered and sev- eral were killed and wounded. This is a sacrifice to the negligence of our of- ficers in taking care of the peniten- tiary, I notice some of our Ohio nation al guard regiments are going to the front. As to home matters wE are all well. Edward and I are farming as well as we can. Cold weather has kept back vegetation and we have lately had several light frosts. We have sheered our sheep and sold our wool at 75 cts per pound. I have heard since that ^it is selling a little higher. We had 347 Pounds. Our singing choir is pretty small, often only H. Dowd on the tenour and Hamsher and Wm [William] Hulbert on the base. Jacob Bell has sold his blacksmith shop and I suppose will leave the place. I hope you will take good care of your health as you can, and let us hear from you often. Your affectionate father Varnum Noyes. 6月19日收到 吉尔福德 1864 年 6 月 9 日 亲爱的儿子 前天晚上我们 收到你的来信，照片 和你的建筑物的图片。他们 都非常可以接受。我们经常 听取其他人的公司意见 他们写信回家，但更愿意直接收到您的来信。 我想在此之前你收到了一封我们寄来的信 Styles Hosmer，也是一罐黄油 和一种苹果酱。 6 月 15 日。当我写完那几个 上面的行。我得知爱德华 刚刚给你寄了一封信 并认为我会推迟几天完成它。我们收到了 前一天晚上你寄来的一份报纸 最后并得出结论，你很好。 我们最近收到了来自 哈丽特和玛莎。他们很好 亨利和哈丽特已经 暴露于天花并有 接种过疫苗，我想，因为 牛痘。可能有什么影响 将两者混合在一起 不知道。我有一些担心 它可能做得不太好。玛莎，我们期待 7 月 4 日回家 亨利和哈丽特关于 七月中旬。我宁愿认为 哈丽特会喜欢自己 在家里和在营地一样好。我们村发生了一件令人悲伤的事 前天晚上。这是死亡 威廉·特纳。他去睡觉了 像往常一样，显然在大约 他平时的健康。十点左右 他的妻子听到他的呻吟声 努力唤醒他，但 不能。她打电话给她的邻居，其中几个人进来了 在很短的时间内，但他 死的。这是一个非常严重和不 预计他的家人会中风。 葬礼即将举行 明天下午 2 点这 留他这么久的原因 是送给他在宾大的朋友。 有机会参加 如果他们愿意，可以举行葬礼。我可以努力 意识到特纳先生已经死了 上个安息日晚上，他点亮了我们的 晚上聚会的教堂。这 讲台灯不给力 好光，他把它们拿出来 在我进入后填满它们 桌子，最后一次填满它们。 我们会非常想念他 教会。他有时采取 参加我们的祷告会 你离开了。他很尴尬，因为我告诉过他会 很快就靠毅力克服了。 我们从玛莎的信中得知 查尔斯·迪克斯病了，但还没有 对父母说了什么 假设如果他 希望让他们知道他 会给他们发消息。 你可能听说过 约翰摩根再次突袭 进入肯塔基。他俘虏了一千二、一千五百名辛西安斯 国民警卫队从此 状态。他捕获了我相信关于 整个171团和部分 168。他们在投降前进行了相当大的抵抗，有几人被打死打伤。这是 牺牲了我们的官员在照顾监狱方面的疏忽，我注意到我们俄亥俄州的一些国家 所有警卫团都在前线。 至于家庭事务，我们都很好。 爱德华和我也在种地 我们可以。寒冷的天气一直保持 回植被，我们最近 有几次轻微的霜冻。我们已经剪了 我们的羊和我们的羊毛以 75 美分的价格出售 每磅。从那以后我就听说了 卖的高一点。我们有 347 磅。 我们的合唱团很小，经常 只有 H. Dowd 在男高音和 Hamsher 和威廉赫伯特在基地。雅各布·贝尔 已经卖掉了他的铁匠铺，我想 会离开这个地方。我希望你能接受 尽可能照顾好自己的健康，让 我们经常收到您的来信。你的深情 父亲瓦努姆·诺伊斯。 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Varnum to his Son, June 19, 1864 Subject The topic of the resource Letters; Smallpox; Death Description An account of the resource In this letter to Francis, Varnum mentions receiving letters from him as well as other members of the family. Varnum mentions that Henry and Harriet have been exposed to smallpox and have been vaccinated. The two are expected home in the middle of July. A couple of nights ago, William Turner died of a stroke and the funeral will be held soon. Varnum mentions John Morgan's raid into Kentucky and calls it "a sacrifice to the negligence of our officers" when mentioning the deaths. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1864-06-09 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_918 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <a href="https://www.geonames.org/4469393/guilford-county.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guilford</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/6254925/kentucky.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kentucky</a> Morgan's Ohio Raid, 1863 death farming illness Smallpox vaccination violence weather https://noyesletters.org/files/original/73d8a7282dacb3b1084d536e083169fa.pdf 5f0f2d8648022047f009ff3f9fd87fa7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Philadelphia March 5 18[?3?]9 Having but little to do this afternoon I have though I may wait a day or two before I put it in the mail in hopes of having a line from you. I arri- ved here last evening after a tedious journey. I found the travelling exceedingly bad. I left Wooster on Saturday and got as far as Paris a distance of about forty miles about mid- night and concluded then to spend the Sab- bath. The rest of the passengers went on Sab- bath morning. Here owing to the business of the roads and the consequent derangement of the stages I was obliged to stay till tues day morning. Tuesday we proceeded on as far as New Lisbon a distance of 26 or 28 miles and no urgency could prevail on them to carry me any farther that night. Thursday morning we proceeded on our journey and arrived at Smith's Ferry on the Ohio about 1 o clock in the afternoon. There were two steam boats in sight but they had gone by and so I had tarry there till night. About dark I made out to get aboard of a boat and arrived at 5 oclock. Was detained in Pittsburg till Friday morning, when I took the stage for Philadelphia. Owing to the [--mud--] mud and snow our progress was slow. Was in the stage all of the first night and most of the second. Spent the Sab- bath in Huntingdon. The day of rest was very acceptable though I was so sleepy I could scarcely keep awake at meeting. Heard an agent of the Assemblies board of Foreign Missions in the day time and an agent of the seamen friends society in the evening. Monday morning took the stage. The weather was extremely cold though pleasant through the day. Travelled all night and arrived in Harrisburg just in time to take the moring cars which brought us to Philadelphia last evening about 6 o clock. Last night I tarried at Dr Green's, and to day have taken lodgings in the family of a Mr Evans where I receive the kindest attention. The lawsuit has made but little progress. They have com- menced taking testimony to day. The pros- pect is that the case will be rather tedious and what will be the decision we of course know not. My healthy is good with the exception of fatigue. I hope that during my absence you may enjoy the [?smiles?] of providence and the consolations of religion. It is perhaps a good thing at times to feel the effects of our own weak ness. But I know of nothing better for christians than to trust in the Lord and go forward in the path of duty. Though he [?slay?] me yet will I trust in him is the language of an ancient saint and it should be the language of [?sorry?] child of God. I shall [illegible] the remainder a day or two in hopes of a letter from you. 9th Called this morning at the post office in hopes of finding a letter from you but found none Trust you are getting along well. The lawsuit progresses tardily almost a week is gone and the testimony on the part of the prosecution is not yet finished. So I may rest for the present [Note: page torn so words are illegible] [illegible]. I shall not probably be called up till the last of the next week. I am at present inclined to think that I shall not go to New England, but return to Ohio as soon as can be spared. A number of my old friends are here, Mr Lathrop, Judge Brown & C. How the case will terminate I know not. The Lord reigneth and let him reign. Such business as I am now engaged in is not very congenial to my feelings. My people need not much expect me home till about the last of March. I hope they will not cease to assemble together for prayer and religious worship. Take good care of yourself and our dear children till my return. Take a cathartic occasionally if necessary. Your affection ate husband Varnum Noyes Mrs Lois W. Noyes Guilford Medina Co Ohio 费城 3 月 5 日 18 日 39 日 无事可做 今天下午我有，虽然我可以等 在我把它放入邮件前一两天 希望能收到你的来信。经过一段乏味的旅程，我昨晚到达这里。 我发现旅行非常糟糕。我离开了 周六伍斯特到达巴黎 大约午夜时分大约四十英里的距离，然后结束了 洗澡。其余的乘客在安息日早上出发。这里由于业务 道路和随之而来的混乱 我不得不待到星期二早上的阶段。周二我们继续 至新里斯本，距离 26 或 28英里，没有紧迫感 那天晚上他们把我带到了更远的地方。 星期四早上我们继续我们的 旅程并抵达史密斯渡轮 俄亥俄州下午 1 点左右。那里 有两艘蒸汽船在眼前，但他们有 过去了，所以我一直在那里呆到晚上。 天黑了，我想登上一艘 船，5点钟到达。在匹兹堡被拘留 直到星期五早上，当我上台时 为费城。由于 泥泞和雪地，我们的进度很慢。 第一个晚上都在舞台上 和大多数第二个。在亨廷顿度过安息日。休息日是 非常可以接受，虽然我很困，我 开会时几乎不能保持清醒。 听说议会的代理人 白天的外国使团和 海员之友协会的代理人 晚上。星期一早上上台。 虽然天气非常冷 愉快的一天。走遍了所有 晚上刚到哈里斯堡 是时候乘坐带来的早晨汽车了 我们昨晚大约 6 点到费城 时钟。昨晚我在格林博士家逗留， 今天已经在 我收到的埃文斯先生的家人 最亲切的关注。该诉讼已 取得了进展，但进展甚微。他们今天已经开始作证。前景是，此案将相当 乏味的，会是什么决定 我们当然不知道。我的健康很好 除了疲劳。我希望 在我不在的时候，你可以享受 天意的微笑和安慰 的宗教。这也许是件好事 有时会感受到我们自己的弱点的影响 尼斯。但我知道没有比这更好的了 基督徒不如信靠主 在职责的道路上前进。 虽然他杀了我但我会相信 他是古代圣人的语言 它应该是抱歉的语言 上帝的孩子。我将 [无法辨认] 剩余部分 一两天希望收到你的来信。 9th 今天早上在邮局打电话希望 找到一封你的信，但没有找到 相信你们相处得很好。诉讼 进展缓慢 几乎一个星期过去了 控方的证词是 还没有完成。所以我可以暂时休息 [注：页面撕裂，文字难以辨认] [难以辨认]。我可能不会被召唤 直到下周的最后一天。我目前 倾向于认为我不会去 新英格兰，但尽快返回俄亥俄州 可以幸免。我的一些老朋友 来了，Lathrop 先生，Brown & C 法官。 案件将如何终止我不知道。 主掌权，让他掌权。这样的 我现在从事的业务不是 非常符合我的感受。我的人 不用太期待我回家 三月的最后一天。我希望他们不会 停止聚集在一起祈祷和 宗教崇拜。好好照顾你自己 和我们亲爱的孩子，直到我回来。拿一个 必要时偶尔宣泄。你的情 吃了丈夫 Varnum Noyes Lois W. Noyes 夫人 吉尔福德 麦地那公司 俄亥俄州 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Varnum to Lois, March 5, 1839 Subject The topic of the resource Travel; Railroad travel; Health; Christians; Actions and defenses Description An account of the resource Varnum writes to his wife Lois about his trip to Philadelphia which has something to do with a lawsuit. The traveling took longer than he thought it would and the weather conditions slowed the process. Varnum is in good health besides the fatigue from traveling. The lawsuit has made little progress and Varnum cannot tell what the decision will be. He expects to not be called until the end of the week. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1839-03-05 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_917 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <a href="https://www.geonames.org/4560349/philadelphia.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Philadelphia</a>&nbsp;<br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=Wooster&amp;country=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wooster</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5206379/pittsburgh.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pittsburgh</a> boats Christianity travel weather https://noyesletters.org/files/original/345ce667344cf945f2513a6d5890636f.pdf c0bd05ad12ec12bc27e7b8352672be94 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Guilford Medina Co Ohio June 17 1836 My dear Parents It is a long time since I have written to you and I do not know but you begin to think me an ungrateful son. I have however so many things to attend to that I cannot find much time to write letters, and were it not that you have strong claims on a portion of my time I should not think I could even now spend time to write you. I received a letter from sister Z N. sometime since and was gratified to hear of your health and welfare. Although I am far distant from you I do not forget you nor lose my interest in your welfare. you are perhaps expecting a visit from me this summer. And I should be very much ratified in coming, but I have concluded that I must wait another year. My people have made commendable efforts to have me preach in Guilford all my time this year and as I have been prevented from preaching a number of Sabbaths by sickness and have been absent four weeks attending the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Pittsburg i feel as though I could not reasonably leave them destitute any more this sum- mer. i have all along made my calcula tions to visit you this summer, but it appears to be my duty to relinquish the object. I mentioned that I had been sick. I have not been confined to my bed at any time, but had symptoms of the billious fever and was obliged to make use of power- ful medicines to throw it off which greatly weakened me and rendered me unable to preach for three or four Sabbaths. I was quite feeble when I set out for Pittsburg but thought that possibly a journey might prove ben- ificial to my health, and had it not been for the long and tedious session I should have [?derived?] considerable advantage from the journey And even now I am better than when I left and am in hopes that I shall pass through the season without a turn of fever. The other members of my family are well. It may be news to you to learn that we have been presented with a second son, a fine healthy boy whom we call Henry Varnum. We have now two lovely little boys which we hope to bring up for the Lord. Sister Fay is now with us. She deeply feels the loss of her husband and I fear will grieve so much as to destroy her health and life. Although I have been afflicted since I have been in this state yet I have great reason for gratitude. I have an agreeable companion and a pleasant home. I should be exceedingly gratified in visiting my relatives in New England especially my aged parents but I question whether you would think it advisable in my pres- ent circumstances. I intend to come another year if the Lord permit. I should be very much gratified to have you come and visit my and spend six months or a year with me. I will endeavour to make you as comfort able as I can if you will come. Father Walker has been here twice and I think he is older than you. I have built me a house so that I can accommodate you pretty well for this country. If you should come in the fall and tarry till spring, you would be in no danger of suffering from the climate of this country. But I hope that whether we shall see each others faces again in the flesh or or not we shall make it our principal busi ness to prepare for the future world. You dear parents have almost reached the period [--of--] of three score and ten, an age reached by few and you cannot but look upon your selves as standing on the brink of eternity. You will soon have done with all things terrestrial and go to your reward. And I hope you will spend your few remaining days in making preparation for the future [Note: the middle, right side of the page has been torn] world. Somehow or other we are apt to let the world engross our attention too much and neglect the concerns of our souls. But soon the things of this world will appear as vain and empty as the bubles of the deep. Then to have an interest in the Savior will be of more value than worlds. I think that one point in which all Christians are defi- cient is studying the bible. I am confident that we cannot study the bible too much or too carefully follow its directions. The State of religion in this place is [illegible] bly low, and I have become almost de [illegible] I do not know of any class of men who [illegible] more patience than minsters of [illegible] ful. We may preach the most affec [illegible] and our people will apear to listen [illegible] attention and then go away and forget [illegible] every thing they have heard and live as [illegible] they were to remain in this world forever. [illegible] I do not know what to do in oder to [illegible] up the stupidity of this church and exci [illegible] them to activity in the service of God. [illegible] sometimes think that I am standing in [illegible] way, and the Lord will not bless this [illegible] ple because I am here. We have been [illegible] led the past year with cases of discipline [illegible] The church is divided and the cause [illegible] posed to reproach by professors of [illegible] The whole Presbyterian church is [illegible] agitation and I do not know but [illegible] will be a division soon. I was exeed- ingly pained with the proceedings of the general assembly and unless the state of things shall alter for the better shall hope never to attend another meeting of this body. I believe the Presbyterian Church is two large and ought to be divided. I trust you are [?delivered?] from the unhappy contentious which are [?reaching?] the Presbyterian Church. May the Lord overrule all those things for his own glory and bring all things to a happy and glorious result. From your affectionate Son Varnum Noyes [Note: the following is written vertically in the left margin] I hope you will write soon, Mrs Noyes sends her love to you all. If Sister Z was here I think she might teach school to good advantage. [--Let--] It was my inten- tion if I came to New England this summer to have brought her back with me if she was willing to come, but as it is I do not know as She will have any opportunity to come but if she should I hope she will improve it. We need many teachers in this country who are well qualified. [Note: the following is written vertically ] 25 Dear Josiah Noyes Westmoreland Newhampshire guilford ohio June 22 If I should be released from preaching for any length of Time I should like to set up a [--school--] school and I am not sure but I could in this way do more good than by preaching. At good school mistress can have a dollar and a half per week and an ordinary master twelve dollars per month. If sister Z is in- clining to consumptive complaints this coun try would most likely be conducive to her health. Consumptions are rare in this coun- try. Billious fevers are the most prevalent of any diseases. I think upon the whole this is a health country. 吉尔福德梅迪纳公司俄亥俄州 6 月 17 日 1836年 我亲爱的父母 很久以来 我已经写信给你，但我不知道 你开始认为我是个忘恩负义的儿子。 然而我有很多事情要处理 我找不到太多时间写作 信，要不是你有实力 要求我的一部分时间我应该 没想到我现在还能花时间 给你写信。收到姐姐的来信 Z N. 从那时起，很高兴听到 您的健康和福利。虽然我 我离你很远我不忘记 你也不会失去我对你福利的兴趣。 你也许期待我的来访 夏天。我应该非常认可 即将到来，但我已经得出结论，我必须 再等一年。我的人做了 让我传教的值得称赞的努力 吉尔福德今年所有的时间和我一样 被阻止传讲一些 因病而安息日和缺席 四个星期参加大会 匹兹堡长老会教堂 我觉得我无法合理地 今年夏天让他们不再一贫如洗。我一直都在盘算着今年夏天去看你，但它 似乎我有责任放弃 目的。我提到我生病了。 我从来没有被限制在床上 时间，但有胆汁的症状 发烧，不得不使用强效药物将其甩掉，这极大地 削弱了我，使我无法讲道 三个或四个安息日。我很虚弱 当我动身前往匹兹堡但我想 一段旅程可能会被证明是好的—— 对我的健康很重要，如果不是这样的话 对于我应该进行的漫长而乏味的会议 从旅途中获得了相当大的优势 即使现在我也比我离开时更好 我希望我能通过 没有发烧的季节。这 我家的其他成员都很好。它可能 让你知道我们已经 生了第二个儿子，一个健康的好男孩 我们称之为亨利瓦纳姆。我们有 现在我们希望有两个可爱的小男孩 为主兴起。费姐姐现在和 我们。她深深地感受到失去丈夫 我担心会悲伤到毁灭 她的健康和生活。虽然我一直 因为我一直处于这种状态，所以很痛苦 我有充分的理由感恩。我有一个 愉快的伴侣和愉快的家。 我应该非常高兴访问 我在新英格兰的亲戚，尤其是我的 年迈的父母，但我质疑你是否 会认为在我目前的情况下是可取的。我打算再来一个 如果主允许，一年。我应该很 很高兴有你来参观 我和我一起度过六个月或一年 我。我会努力让你感到舒适 如果你能来，我能做到。沃克神父 来过这里两次，我觉得他年纪大了 比你。我给我建了一所房子，这样 我可以很好地容纳你 这个国家。如果你应该进来 秋天，等到春天，你不会 遭受这种气候的危险 国家。但我希望我们是否 再次亲眼看到彼此的面孔或 否则我们将把它作为我们的主要业务 为未来世界做准备。你 亲爱的父母都快到了 三分十，年龄达到 很少，你不得不看看你的 自己站在永恒的边缘。 你很快就会完成所有的事情 陆地和去你的奖励。和我 希望你能度过剩下的 为未来做准备的日子 [注：页面中间、右侧已撕裂] 世界。不知何故，我们倾向于让 世界太吸引我们的注意力 忽略我们灵魂的关切。但很快 这世上的事会显得空虚 和深渊的气泡一样空虚。然后 对救主有兴趣 比世界更有价值。我觉得 所有基督徒的不足之处之一就是研读圣经。我有信心 我们不能过多地研究圣经或 太仔细地听从它的指示。 这个地方的宗教状况是[无法辨认] 低声下气，我几乎变成了 [无法辨认] 我不知道有哪类人[难以辨认] 比[无法辨认]的牧师更有耐心 满。我们可能会宣扬最动人的[无法辨认] 我们的人民会听[难以辨认] 注意然后走开然后忘记[无法辨认] 他们所听到和生活的每一件事[难以辨认] 他们将永远留在这个世界上。 [难以辨认] 我不知道该怎么做才能 [无法辨认] 提高这个教会和 exci 的愚蠢性 [无法辨认] 他们积极地为上帝服务。 [难以辨认] 有时认为我站在[难以辨认] 方式，主不会祝福这[无法辨认] ple 因为我在这里。我们一直[无法辨认] 过去一年以纪律案件为首[无法辨认] 教会分裂，原因[无法辨认] 被[无法辨认]的教授责备 整体长老会教堂 [无法辨认] 激动，我不知道，但[难以辨认] 很快就会成为一个部门。我被强迫了—— 对诉讼程序感到非常痛苦 大会，除非国家 事情会变得更好 希望永远不要参加另一个会议 这个身体。我相信长老会 是两个大的，应该分开。我 相信你来自不快乐 有争议的是长老会 教会。愿主胜过所有这些 为他自己的荣耀而做的事，并带来所有的东西 达到一个快乐而光荣的结果。从你的 深情的儿子 Varnum Noyes [注：以下内容在左边距垂直书写] 我希望你能尽快写信，诺伊斯夫人向你们表达她的爱。 如果 Z 姐妹在这里，我想她可能会教书 学校有很好的优势。这是我的意图 如果我今年夏天来新英格兰 如果她是的话，我会把她带回来 愿意来，但我不知道 因为她有机会来 但如果她应该我希望她会有所改善 它。这个国家需要很多老师 谁是合格的。 【注：以下为竖写】 25 亲爱的乔赛亚·诺伊斯 威斯特摩兰 新罕布什尔 吉尔福德俄亥俄州 6月22日 如果我应该为任何人从讲道中解脱出来 我想设置的时间长度 学校，我不确定，但我可以 这样比传道做得更好。 在好学校，女主人可以有一块钱， 每周半和一个普通的主人 每月十二美元。如果Z姐姐在—— 本县对消费投诉的执着 尝试很可能对她有利 健康。消费在这个国家是罕见的 尝试。百里热是最普遍的 任何疾病。我认为总的来说这是一种健康 国家。 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Varnum to Josiah, June 17, 1836 Subject The topic of the resource Presbyterian Church--Government; Birth; House construction; Bible--Study and teaching Description An account of the resource Varnum updates Josiah on the difficulties his illness has imposed on preaching to his Guilford congregation and attending the Pittsburgh General Assembly, as well as on the birth of his second son, Henry. He hopes Josiah will visit him in his newly-built house. He believes Bible study to be of little significance among contemporary Christians and anticipates a division in the Presbyterian Church. He would like to see Zoa come from New England to teach and wants to start a new school. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1836-06-17 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_915 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <a href="https://www.geonames.org/5156633/township-of-guilford.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guilford Township</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5206379/pittsburgh.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pittsburgh</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5094550/westmoreland.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Westmoreland</a> baby Christianity death family illness ministers preaching Presbyterian Church https://noyesletters.org/files/original/469c3182570bbbceb061b3f1584c2b45.pdf cf670c269cf014c4d4863ef9c3b97bc5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Guilford Feb. 11th 1856 Dear Sister, Your letter of Dec 26th was duly received and was, (as is usual with such letters) perused and reperused with pe- culiar satisfaction. As this is Monday I have a little leisure time to spend in answering it. I got a small sheet of letter paper at first but finding by reading your letter a commendation of my last on account of its size I concluded to take a large sheet for the purpose. As it is [u]Mon day[/u] when ministers feel a little [u]Mondayish[/u], on account of the labours of the preceding day you will not expect any thing very laboured. Yesterday was a solemn day to the Presbyterian church in this place, rendered so by the funeral solemnities connected with the disease of Mr Horton. You are aware that he was a leading number and [?ruling?] elder in the church. He had lived among us almost twenty years, and was one of those who was constant in his attendance on public worship and also our weekly prayer meeting. He was also always ready to take a part in our prayermeetings. But that voice which we have so often heard in our prayermeeting will be heard no more. We shall miss him very much. Although he was considered rather close in his dealings yet no one that I know of doubted the genuine ness of his piety, and the whole community seemed to realize the loss sustained by his death. His funeral was attended yesterday at the Baptist Meetinghouse, that being the largest in the place and it was crowded to overflowing. All the different denominations in the place gave up their Separate meet- ings and attended the funeral exercises. [Note: Later notes added in red pen] On Christian duality: the seen + the unseen I attempted to preach on the occasion from 2nd Corinthians, 4-17,18, dwelling mostly upon the second verse of the text. Mr Horton seems deeply to feel her loss though she appears to exer- cise the feelings of a christian. I do not think she will survive her husband very long, as she appears to be rapidly failing and her affliction may hasten her exit form the world. But it is a consolation to know that though christians die the church will not die. Her Saviour lives and when he calls some of his people home he can easily raise up other to take their place. The death of christian friends should have a tendency to quicken us in the path of duty. We know not how soon our day of labour will be ended, but we know and are often reminded that it is drawing towards its close. [Note: In red] U.d. 32 yrs later It certainly becomes us "to walk thoughtful on the solemn, silent shore, of that vast ocean we must sail so soon." The brethren seemed to feel at our prayer-meeting last evening that they were called upon to be up and doing. But alas how soon do the most solemn impres- sions vanish from our minds. Solemn providen ces seem to awake us out of sleep for a little while but soon we relapse again into a state of spiritual apathy. Nothing but the powerful influences of the divine spirit will effectually and permanently awaken the peo ple of God out of their spiritual sleep. The state of religion among us is lamentably low. Our youth are much given to vanity. The Presbyterian church are about underta king to build a new meetinghouse. But this will be of little use unless the Lord pour out his spirit upon us and build up the Spiritual house. I visited families two days last week in the church of Lafayette, and really I felt very much discouraged. Although I had given previous notice I found the men mostly off about their worldly business. It is hard work to make pastoral visits when the church is in a cold and lifeless state. And what increases the difficulty is that I am much in the same state. If I were as much engaged as I ought to be, I might hope to be the means of kindling up the piety of others, but now I suppose some have this feeling though they do not express it. Physician heal thyself. In one or two instances, however, I found a little encouragement. The prospect of building up the church in Lafayette is upon the whole better than it is here. My children are mostly attending school this winter, the two oldest at Hayesville, and the rest our district school. Those at Hayesville are making satisfactory progress in their studies. Our family are rapidly growing up. Martha is taller than her mother, Harriet and Emily most as tall. When we get our six daughters all home we shall have quite a company of girls. Clara is yet with her Aunt Fay. The winter has been remark- ably cold. We have had but very few days when the weather was mild enough to that since C^hristmas. Most of this time we have had good sleighing. The snow is now over a foot deep, though beginning to that a little Francis, Martha and Harriet have gone to see some of our old acquaintances in Wayne. Since I received your letter I have received one from sister Fay making the same proposi- tion that you did in yours, viz, that Mrs N should visit New England when I go to the General Assembly. She is getting a little inclined to accede to the proposition. There are some difficulties in the way but I do not think them insuperable. Sister fay's prop osition is to have to her sister Wheeler from N.Y. visit at the same time and so get the whole Walker tribe together. I was thinking [--whether--] if we carry out her plan whether we could not continue to have the Noyes tribe together also. May be brother J. would be able to go to Marlbo rough and Westmoreland with us and so all meet once more on the shores of time. I some times feel almost inclined to give up the project myself. It looks like a great under- taking. I find that, as age beings to creep upon me, I do not like to push out from home as well as I once did, I shall find if I come a sad vacancy made in our family circle. Our aged mother, whom I have always seen heretofore, I shall see in the flesh no more I have written to brother Augustus in hopes to learn the whereabouts of his children. I did not know but I might call on Harriet if I spend a week or two in Newyork. But there is much uncertainty in all our earthly plans. We shall all see in a little while what President Adams calls [u]the last of earth[/u]. I have almost finished my sheet and I think you will, say, enough unless better. Mrs N unites in love to you all. My regards to brother Syman. Let me hear from you soon Affectionately yours Varnum Noyes. 吉尔福德 1856 年 2 月 11 日 亲爱的妹妹， 你 12 月 26 日的来信是 正式收到并且是，（与往常一样 这样的信件）以一种特别的满足感反复阅读。因为这是星期一，所以我有 有一点空闲时间来回答 它。起初我得到了一小张信纸，但 通过阅读你的来信发现对 我的最后一个，因为它的大小，我得出结论 为此目的取一张大纸。因为是周一，部长们觉得有点周一，在 记下你前一天的劳动 不会指望任何事情很费力。昨天 对长老会来说是一个庄严的日子 这个地方，在葬礼上如此呈现 与霍顿先生的病有关。 你知道他是一个领先的数字 和教会中的长老。他曾经住过 在我们中间将近二十年，是一个 那些一直在他出席的人 在公共崇拜和我们的每周 祷告会。他也时刻准备着 参加我们的祷告会。但是那个 我们经常听到的声音 我们的祷告会不会再被听到。 我们会非常想念他。虽然他 在他的交易中被认为相当接近 然而，据我所知，没有人怀疑真正的 他的虔诚和整个社区 似乎意识到自己遭受的损失 死亡。昨天参加了他的葬礼 在浸信会聚会所，那是 这个地方最大，很拥挤 到溢出。所有不同的教派 在这个地方放弃了他们的单独会议，并参加了葬礼。 [注：后面用红笔添加的注释]论基督教的二元性：可见与不可见 我试图在这个场合讲道 哥林多后书 4-17,18，主要讲述 正文的第二节。霍顿先生似乎很深 去感受她的失落，尽管她似乎在锻炼基督徒的感情。我不 认为她会挺过她的丈夫 很长，因为她似乎正在迅速失败 她的痛苦可能会加速她的离开 形成世界。但这是一个安慰 知道虽然基督徒死了教会 不会死。她的救主活着，何时 他可以把他的一些人叫回家 轻易地举起其他人来取代他们的位置。 基督徒朋友的死应该有一个 倾向于加速我们走上职责的道路。 我们不知道我们的劳动节有多快 将会结束，但我们知道并且经常 提醒它正在接近尾声。 [注：红色] U.d. 32 年后 肯定会成为我们“走得体贴 在那浩瀚海洋的庄严、寂静的海岸上 我们必须尽快启航。” 弟兄们似乎 在我们昨晚的祷告会上感受到 他们被要求站起来做事。 但是，最庄严的印象很快就会从我们的脑海中消失。庄严的提供 ces 似乎能把我们从睡眠中唤醒一段时间 虽然但很快我们又重蹈覆辙 精神冷漠的状态。无非就是 神圣精神的强大影响力将 有效和永久地唤醒上帝的子民从他们的精神沉睡中。 我们中间的宗教状况是可悲的 低的。我们的青年人很虚荣。 长老会教堂即将举行 国王建造一个新的会议室。但 除非主 将祂的灵倾倒在我们身上，建立 精神家园。我拜访了两个家庭 上周在拉斐特教堂的几天， 我真的感到非常沮丧。 虽然我已经提前通知我发现 男人们大部分时间都在谈论他们的世俗 商业。牧灵访问是一项艰苦的工作 当教会处于冰冷无生气的状态时。 而增加难度的是我 我处于同样的状态。如果我是 我应该很投入，我希望 成为点燃虔诚的手段 其他人，但现在我想有些人有这个 感觉虽然他们没有表达出来。医师 治愈自己。然而，在一两种情况下， 我找到了一点鼓励。前景 在拉斐特建立教会是 总的来说比这里好。 我的孩子大多在这个学校上学 冬天，海斯维尔最年长的两个，还有 休息我们的地区学校。海斯维尔的那些 正在取得令人满意的进展 学习。我们的家庭正在迅速成长。 玛莎比她的母亲哈丽特和 艾米丽最高。当我们得到我们的六个 女儿们都回家了，我们将拥有相当 一群女孩。克拉拉还没有 她的费伊阿姨。冬天异常寒冷。我们只有很少的几天 当天气足够温和时 自圣诞节以来。大多数时候我们有 有很好的雪橇。雪现在结束了 一英尺深，虽然开始有点 弗朗西斯、玛莎和哈丽特去看了 我们在韦恩的一些老熟人。 自从收到你的信后，我收到了一封 来自 Fay 姐姐提出同样的建议—— 你在你身上所做的，即 N 夫人 我去的时候应该去新英格兰 大会。她变得有点 倾斜的同意该提议。那里 路上有一些困难，但我愿意 不要认为他们不可战胜。小姐姐的道具 职位是她来自纽约的姐姐惠勒。 同时访问，所以得到整个 沃克部落在一起。我刚在想 如果我们执行她的计划我们是否可以 不继续有诺耶斯部落在一起也。 可能是J.兄弟可以去万宝 粗犷和威斯特摩兰和我们一起等等 在时间的彼岸再次相遇。我有些 时代感觉几乎要放弃了 自己项目。它看起来像一个伟大的under- 服用。我发现，随着年龄的增长 我，我不喜欢被赶出家门 就像我曾经做过的那样，我会发现如果我 来我们家制造一个可悲的空缺 圆圈。我们年迈的母亲，我一直都是 在此之前，我将不再看到肉体 我已经写信给奥古斯都兄弟，希望 想知道他孩子的下落。我没有 知道，但如果我花钱，我可能会拜访哈丽特 在纽约一两个星期。但是有很多 我们所有尘世计划的不确定性。我们应该 很快大家就会看到亚当斯总统的所作所为 呼唤地球的最后。我差不多完成了 我的床单，我想你会说，足够了，除非 更好的。 N 夫人爱你们所有人。致以我的问候 给西蒙兄弟。让我尽快收到你的消息 深情的你 瓦纳姆·诺伊斯。 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Varnum to his Sister, February 11, 1856 Subject The topic of the resource Death; Funeral service; Sermons; Children; Old age Description An account of the resource In this letter, Varnum writes to his sister about how he got her letter over a month ago. The day before a funeral was held at the Presbyterian church for Mr. Horton. He was a very well-respected member of the church although he was a very busy person. His funeral at the Baptist Meetinghouse, the largest building, and it overflowed. Most of Varnum's children are attending school this winter and remarks that his family is rapidly growing up. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1856-02-11 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_906 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <a href="https://www.geonames.org/4832366/guilford.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guilford</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/4922462/lafayette.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lafayette</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5157178/hayesville.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hayesville</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5128581/new-york-city.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/4943170/marlborough.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marlborough</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5094550/westmoreland.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Westmoreland</a> children death family funerals prayer preaching Presbyterian Church https://noyesletters.org/files/original/cb33e95da6eb067ea405072d71770277.pdf 858db9e5a79a3159f5a5a8a89c845c3d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Wayne Ohio Sept 23rd 1850 My Dear Sister. Your letter bearing date August 5th was brought safely to our post- office and was seasonably received. I first thought when I moved into this place that I should use the post-office of Wooster, but on inflection concluded to have my papers, letters, &c. come to [?Cooper?] which is only about half as far from me, though on a cross road. I am always glad to hear from you and to hear of your health and prosperity. I am sorry that your bodily health is so poor, and might perhaps express my desire in your behalf in the language of the apos- tle John in the 2nd verse of his epistle to [illegible] I should judge from the tone of your letter that you are favoured with much more spir- ituality of mind, and religious feeling than your western brother. I know that I ought to be more engaged in the good cause of my Master than I am or even have been. I came to this place with some feeble resolutions to give myself wholy to the work, and make it my great business to preach the gospel of Christ and endeavour to promote the interests of his church and kingdom. I must confess that I have poorly carried out these resolutions. Though I have sometimes seemed to have some freedom in preaching the blessed gospel, yet as a general thing I fear I have been dry and uninteresting. I have had trials that in- terfere with my studies and sometimes make me almost feel as though I must relinquish the ministry, at least for the present. I received mournful tidings last week from Medway. As I was returning home from visiting the sick I called at the post office and found a letter from Medway. I hastily put it into my hat and drove on towards home. I thought I would open it as I passed along and see who it was from. I first looked at the signature and saw it was David Sanford. Judge my feelings as I cast my eye upon the first sentence of the letter, "Your beloved son [u]Gilbert Fay[/u] is no more." I can hardly realize even yet that my little boy in Massachusetts is gone. But it is reality. I have often thought of the great goodness of God in sparing my family unbroken while many of the families of my acquain- tences have been broken into by the great de- stroyer. Gilbert died as I suppose on the 12th [?instant?] as that was the date of brother Sanford's let- ter. His disease was typhus fever. He was sick about two weeks, most of the time deranged. Mr Sandford write's that he had seemed to love the bible and sabbath school and was regular in devotional exercises and speaks very en- couraging in his case. I never hope, as some do, that children are saved on the ground of their innocency, but I hope they are saved as sinners through the atonement of Christ and the abounding grace of God. I may perhaps say in this case as Mc[illegible] said in reference to a friend that was taken away. "I will hope that he has gone to heaven till I shall find the contrary to be true." My son will never return to me, but I shall soon go to him. The dysentery in prevailing in our neighbourhood here and I have been feeling a considerable anxiety in respect to my children at home but never seemed to think much about my son in Mass. But he is taken and they are left. He was well taken care of in his sickness by his friends then. Last winter I had quite a strong desire to have him come home and wrote something of the kind to sister Fay but she desired him to stay a while longer and I said nothing more about it. She may pre- haps have some reflections on this ground. But I do not feel as though she should, for neither of us had any anticipations of the event that has taken place. "Our life is a vapour which appeareth for a little while and then vanisheth away." There has been a considerable sickness in this congregation for a few weeks past. Three died of dysentery in one family in the neighbourhood, the father and [note: page is damaged here] band, a son and little girl. The man was 51 years old, an active and efficient man of the Baptists denomination. He usually atteneded our meeting, and acted as sexton in the congregation. He seemed to enjoy religion in his sickness, and I trust is gone to rest. The dysentery is very had this year and in many cases proves fatal. I heard of one man who had six children who were all carried off in a few days by this disease. But what effect will these things have upon the living? Will they be led thereby to set their house in order and prepared for another world: I fear not. One sick man, whom I visited the day I heard of the death of my son, [?told?] me if he got well he would serve the Lord faithfully as long as he lived. I have not overmuch confidence in such prom- ises but shall watch the course of this man with some interest if he shall recover. My family has been mostly well since I wrote to Mother in which letter I believe I gave an account of the health of my family up to that time. Mrs N. worries a good dial and is rather uncomfortable. Martha is troubled with a lame hand which prevents her from doing much. My boys work out for out neighbours con- siderable. I have not land enough here to busy them and am rather poorly situated in respect to schools. Whether I shall remain here longer than this [illegible] time must determine. I sometimes almost regret that I did not go out west, to Wisconsin or Iowa. May be I shall yet. They have now a minister in Guilford by the name of Banforth. The [?congregationalists?] and Prebyte- rians write in supporting him. [Note: written horizontally as front of the unfolded letter] Mrs Zoa N. Farrer Marlborough New Hampshire old [?Nickey?] Sept 25th [Note: upside down] [?Name?] Ohio Sept 23, 1850 Rev. V. Noyes How long this union will continue I know not, prob- ably not very long. I think Wayne is a more promising field of labour than Guilford though there are things that are wrong here. There is more harmony of [?visions?] and feelings than there was in Guilford. I sometimes hope that some good. may be effected in this plan. Give my respects to brother J. and family also to Mr Lyman &c. I hope you will write often as it is a great satisfaction for me ot hear from you. Come out and see us if you can. From your Afflicted brother V. Noyes 1850 年 9 月 23 日，俄亥俄州韦恩 亲爱的姐姐。 您的信函日期 8 月 5 日安全抵达我们的岗位- 办公室，并受到及时接待。我先来 当我搬进这个地方时我想 我应该使用伍斯特的邮局， 但在拐点上得出的结论是我的 文件、信件等。来到库普] 这是 虽然离我只有大约一半的距离 在十字路口。我总是很高兴听到 来自您并听到您的健康和 繁荣。我很抱歉你的身体健康 太穷了，也许可以表达我的愿望 用使徒约翰在他写给 [无法辨认] 的书信第 2 节中的语言代表你 我应该从你信的语气判断 你在心灵上的灵性和宗教感情比你更受宠爱 你的西方兄弟。我知道我应该 更多地参与我的公益事业 师父比我甚至曾经。我来了 带着一些微弱的决心去这个地方 全身心地投入到工作中， 传福音是我的大事 基督和努力促进利益 他的教会和王国。我必须承认 我没有很好地执行这些决议。 虽然我有时似乎有一些 自由地传讲福音，然而 一般来说，我担心我已经干了 和无趣。我曾有过干扰我学习的试验，有时 让我几乎觉得我必须 放弃该部，至少对于 当下。上周我收到了令人悲伤的消息 来自梅德韦。当我从 探望我在邮局打电话的病人 找到一封来自梅德韦的信。我急忙放 它戴在我的帽子里，然后开车朝家走去。 我以为我会在我经过时打开它 看看是谁发的。我第一次看 在签名处，看到是大卫 桑福德。当我注视时判断我的感受 在信的第一句话， “你心爱的儿子吉尔伯特·费伊已经不在了。” 我什至还很难意识到我的 马萨诸塞州的小男孩走了。但 这是现实。我经常想到伟大的 上帝保佑我的家人完好无损 而我熟人的许多家庭都被大毁灭者闯入了。吉尔伯特死了，我猜是在第 12 次 因为那是桑福德兄弟来信的日期。他的病是斑疹伤寒。他病了 大约两周，大部分时间都精神错乱。 桑福德先生写的他似乎很喜欢 圣经和安息日学校，并且是正规的 在虔诚的练习中，他的情况非常令人鼓舞。我从不希望，因为有些 做，孩子们被拯救在地上 他们的清白，但我希望他们是 因赎罪而得救为罪人 基督和上帝丰富的恩典。 在这种情况下，我可能会说是 Mc[难以辨认] 提到一个被带走的朋友 离开。 “我希望他已经上天堂了 直到我发现相反的情况是真的。” 我的儿子永远不会回到我身边，但我会 很快就去找他。流行的痢疾 在我们这里的附近，我一直在 感到相当焦虑 我的孩子在家，但似乎从来没有 多想想我在马萨诸塞州的儿子。但他是 采取，他们离开了。他得到了很好的照顾 那时他的朋友生病了。去年冬天 我非常渴望拥有他 回家写一些类似的东西 给费伊姐姐，但她希望他待一会儿 更长的时间，我什么也没说。她可能对此有一些思考。但是我愿意 不觉得她应该，因为我们都没有 对已经发生的事件的任何预期 地方。 “我们的生活是一团蒸气 一会儿就消失了。” 这个会众患了相当大的疾病 几周过去了。三人死于痢疾 附近的家人，父亲和[注：此处页面已损坏] 乐队，一个儿子和一个小女孩。该男子51岁 老，浸信会的一个积极而有效率的人 面值。他通常参加我们的会议， 并在会众中担任司事。他看起来 在他的病中享受宗教，我相信已经走了 休息。痢疾今年和在 许多案例证明是致命的。我听说有一个人 有六个孩子都被带走了 数日受此病。但是会有什么影响 这些东西对活人有影响吗？他们会 从而使他们的房屋井然有序，并为 另一个世界：我不怕。我拜访过的一位病人 那天我听说我儿子死了，告诉我他是否 只要他康复了，他就会忠心事奉主 住过。我对这样的承诺并没有太大的信心，但会密切关注这个人的进程 如果他能康复，他会得到一些利息。我的家人有 自从我在 我相信我交代了哪封信 到那时为止我家人的健康。 N夫人担心 一个很好的表盘，而且很不舒服。玛莎是 被一只瘸腿的手困扰着，这阻止了她 做很多。我的男孩们为外出打工的邻居相当可观。我没有足够的土地来忙他们 并且在学校方面的位置相当差。 我是否会在这里停留更长的时间[无法辨认] 时间必须确定。我有时几乎后悔 我没有去西部，去威斯康星州或爱荷华州。 也许我会。他们现在在吉尔福德有一位部长 以班福斯的名义。公理会和长老会写信支持他。 [注：横写在展开字母的前面] Zoa N. Farrer 夫人 马尔堡 新罕布什尔 老尼基 9月25日 [注：倒置] 俄亥俄州 1850 年 9 月 23 日 牧师 V. Noyes 这个联盟会持续多久我不知道，prob- 干练不是很长。我觉得韦恩更 虽然比吉尔福德有前途的劳动力领域 这里有些事情是错误的。有 比那里更和谐的视觉和感觉 在吉尔福德。我有时希望一些好的。 可能会在本计划中生效。表达我的敬意 J. 兄弟和家人也属于莱曼先生 &c.我希望 你会经常写作，因为这是一种极大的满足 让我听到你的消息。出来看看我们 如果你可以的话。来自你受苦的兄弟 V. Noyes Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from V. Noyes to his Sister, September 23, 1850 Subject The topic of the resource Mail service; Preaching; Health; Spirituality--Christianity; Death; Typhus fever; Dysentery; Heaven; Schools; Presbyterian Church Description An account of the resource In this letter, Reverend Varnum Noyes writes about his motivation for becoming a preacher as well as his weaknesses and failures, which sometimes make him feel that he should quit. He distinguished between bodily health and spirituality of mind. He also recounts the moment he received a letter from Massachusetts saying that his son Gilbert Fay had died of typhus fever. Varnum tells his sister about a dysentery outbreak in his congregation. He thinks Wayne is more promising than Guilford. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1850-09-23 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_890 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <a href="https://www.geonames.org/5177358/wooster.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wooster</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/4943648/medway.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Medway</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5156633/township-of-guilford.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Township of Guilford</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5089236/marlborough.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marlborough</a> Christianity family health illness https://noyesletters.org/files/original/ab65895326643be607ff50190432619a.pdf 9a1e0f61a2cf1a46874dd043e972771c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Seville Nov. 29, 1884 My Dear Daughter I have received several letters from you since I last wrote for which you have my sincere thanks. I presume you think it is about time they should be answered. On account of the troublous times you are hav- ing we look for your letters with unusual anxiety. We get news from China through the news papers but find it is not always reliable. When it is [?palpably?] false, they do not afterward correct it. After hear- ing some extravagant and sensational reports, we are surprised and grati- died [^to find] how cooly and calmly you write upon the subject. But while you may feel a good degree of personal safety it must be trying to have your work interrupted. I hope the time is not far distant when the difficulties between the French and Chinese may be amica- bly adjusted. Other nations I sup- pose generally lay the blame on the French, but [--th--] England and the United States have treated China so badly that their mouths are shut. But God who causes the wrath of man to praise him will undoubtable overrule all these things for his own glory. Among all the commotions and overtures among the kingdoms of this world the kingdom of Christ will continue to move steadily onward, till all other kingdoms shall be subject to him and he shall reign from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth, Martha has just come from the Post Office bringing Women's Work for Woman which contains a letter written by you which I have read with much interest. It has also a letter from Mrs Leaman. They have so much apprehension of trouble from the French that they keep their things packed ready to leave at a moments warning. I write but little about the home news as I supposed the rest of the family keep you posted in regard to these things. I am enjoying pretty good health for one of my age. I still labour some but not as much as I did a year ago. I am gradually declining, and must expect soon to go the way of all the earth. Your mother continues about as she has been for a long time. Martha seems healthy and strong. Since she followed Dr Kerrs prescription, travelled about the country and lectured she has been improving. She is now so fleshy I suppose you will scarcely know her when she gets back to China. I do not know when she will go, I suppose not till the troublous times there are over. Winter seems really to have commenced. We have [^had] a very pleasant fall till last sabbath, when the weather became cold, and has continued so most of the time since. The ground is covered with snow, not enough yet for sleigh- ing. Thanksgiving passed off pleasant- ly. The parents and five children were at home. We have many bless- ings to be thankful for though I fear we do not properly appreciate them. God is very gracious to us as a family for which we should render gratitude and praise. Thank you for the account you sent me tof the old east. The way it turned out was really nice. Now I must close. With an "immence" amount of love your affectionate father, V. Noyes 塞维利亚 1884 年 11 月 29 日 我亲爱的女儿 我收到了 从那时起你的几封信 我上次写的你有 我真诚的感谢。我相信 你认为他们是时候了 应该回答。记账 在您遇到的麻烦事中，我们正在寻找您的来信 不寻常的焦虑。我们得到消息 来自中国的报纸 但发现它并不总是可靠的。 当它明显是错误的时候，他们会 不是事后更正。在听到一些奢侈和耸人听闻的 报告，我们惊讶和欣慰地发现你是多么的冷静和从容 写在主题上。但是虽然 你可能会觉得很好 人身安全一定要努力 让你的工作被打断。 希望时间不远 当之间的困难 法语和汉语可以友好调整。我认为其他国家通常应归咎于 法国人，但英国和 美国已经治疗 中国如此糟糕以至于他们的嘴巴 关闭。但造成 人的愤怒赞美他会 毫无疑问地推翻了所有这些事情 为了自己的荣耀。在所有的 之间的骚动和示好 这个世界的王国 基督的国度将继续 稳步前进，直到所有 其他王国应服从 归于他，他将从 海到海，从河到 地球的尽头， 玛莎刚从邮报回来 办公室为女性带来女性工作 其中包含一封信 和你一起读过的你 很大的兴趣。它还有一封信 来自利曼夫人。他们有这么多 担心麻烦来自 他们保留的法国人 收拾好东西准备离开 时刻警告。 我很少写关于家的事 新闻，我认为其余的 家人让你发布关于 这些东西。我很享受 我这个年纪的人身体健康。 我仍然努力一些，但不像 就像我一年前所做的一样。我是 逐渐下降，并且必须期待 很快就要走全地的路。 你妈妈继续说 她已经很久了。 玛莎看起来很健康很强壮。 自从她跟随克尔斯博士 处方，四处旅行 国家和演讲她有 一直在改善。她现在这样 我想你几乎不会 当她回来时认识她 中国。不知道她什么时候 走吧，我想直到麻烦 时间已经过去了。冬天似乎 真的要开始了。我们有 直到最后一个安息日，都过得很愉快， 当天气变冷时， 并且一直如此 从那时起。地面被覆盖 有雪，还不够雪橇。感恩节愉快地过去了。父母和五个孩子 在家里。虽然我有很多祝福要感谢 害怕我们没有正确地欣赏 他们。上帝对我们非常仁慈 作为一个我们应该为之的家庭 表达感激和赞美。感谢 你发给我的账户 古老的东方。结果如何 真的很好。现在我必须关闭。 带着“巨大”的爱 你深情的父亲 V. Noyes Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Varnum to Daughter, November 29, 1884 Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper publishing--China; International relations; Kingdom of God; Letters; Winter Description An account of the resource Varnum writes to his daughter, thanking her for her letters. He realizes that much of the news he receives from China is unreliable. He hopes France and China can resolve their differences and adds that much of the blame can be attributed to England and the United States. Martha retrieved a letter from Mrs. Leaman saying all are ready to leave at moment's notice if the French incite conflict. Varnum feels good for his age but admits that his time will come. Martha is better after Dr. Kerr's help. He reports a snowy winter and a pleasant Thanksgiving. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <br /><a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1884-11-29 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_888 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <a href="https://www.geonames.org/5171681/seville.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Seville</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/1814991/people-s-republic-of-china.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People's Republic of China</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/6269131/england.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">England</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/countries/US/united-states.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United States</a> Sino-French War, 1884-1885 health holidays imperialism politics Sino-French War Thanksgiving https://noyesletters.org/files/original/908a51d09744e081bf71f283e3f7d3a9.pdf 388c9b3b63f3fa456030b6ba7026b56d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Seville July 1st [Note: written in blue pen by unknown individual] 1881 To the Ladies of the Benevo[Note: page ripped here] Society of the Presbyterian Church of Guilford, Beloved Friends, In this 77th anni- versary day of my birth I have received from you a present of the Sofa which I had the honor and pleasure of occupying several years in the [?house?] of God. For this very valuable present you will please to accept my most cordial thanks, This "Old friend," as you very appropriately term it, will be not only a valuable accession to our household furniture and a source of much comfort, but also a remembrance of its use in God's Sanctuary. I have reason to believe that during my ministry in this Con- gregation I have enjoyed in a large degree the confidence and esteem of the sisters in the Church, and their cheerful and hearty co-opera- tion in all my labours to extend and build up our [?Zion?] has been peculiarly gratifying and encoura- ging. My wife and family unite with me in this expression of gratitude. That God may grant you his richest blessings and give success to all your efforts to advance his kingdom, is the desire and prayer of your sincere friend and former pastor Varnum Noyes 塞维利亚 7 月 1 日 [注：未知个人用蓝笔书写] 1881 致仁慈的女士们[注：此处撕下的页面] 长老教会协会 吉尔福德， 亲爱的朋友们， 在我出生 77 周年的日子里，我有 收到你的礼物 我有的沙发 占领的荣誉和乐趣 在上帝的殿里待了几年。 为了这份非常珍贵的礼物 你会接受我的 最诚挚的感谢，这个“老 朋友”，因为你非常恰当 术语它，将不仅是一个有价值的 加入我们的家具 和许多安慰的源泉， 也是对其的纪念 在上帝的圣所使用。 我有理由相信 在我在这个会众的事工中，我享受了很多 程度的信心和尊重 教会中的姐妹们，以及 他们在我所有的工作中愉快而热情地合作，以扩大 建立我们的锡安 特别令人欣慰和鼓舞。我的妻子和家人团聚 和我一起表达 感激。愿上帝赐予 你他最丰富的祝福，并给予 成功，你所有的努力 推进他的王国，是 你真诚的愿望和祈祷 朋友和前牧师 瓦努姆·诺伊斯s Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Varnum to Beloved Friends, July 1, 1881 Subject The topic of the resource Birthdays; Sofas; Gifts; Clergy; Women in the Presbyterian Church Description An account of the resource Varnum writes on his 77th birthday to thank some of the Ladies in the Benevolent Society of the Presbyterian Church for the sofa they have given him. He reflects on his time as a minister and the impact the women in the church have had on his experience. He expresses his gratitude deeply. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1881-07-01 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_887 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <a href="https://www.geonames.org/7258686/guilford.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guilford</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5171681/seville.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Seville</a> missionaries presents sponsors https://noyesletters.org/files/original/64ba5ed76f15f83fe3462223271e8850.pdf 3dd1adb776b1e061a171307227507063 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Guilford April 3d 1860 Dear Sister Z I will take a little time this morning to answer the letter I received from you and sister N. about two weeks ago. I am always glad to hear from you and should be very much gratified if I could see you, but whether I shall enjoy that privilege again in this world is known only to the Lord. We are growing old and infirm, often subject to diseases which admonish us that time is short and we are draw- ing near to our long home. Though I am the youngest of the family yet I begin to feel the effects of age, I cannot endure as much labour as formerly. We should be poor creatures if we had no hope of bliss beyond the grave. But the hope of hereafter being with Christ and be- ing [u]like[/u] him, and of being with all those who have been ransomed with his blood is calculated to comfort and cheer us in our earthly pilgrimage. The thought of meeting in heaven those whom we have known and loved & taken sweet counsel with is delightful and can reconcile us to the loss of their company during our brief sojourn in this vale of tears. I can say I believe there are few families where there has been such sincere and uni- form and long continued affection as in ours. Nothing has ever occurred to mar or disturb our attachment and affection to one another and I feel confident nothing ever will. This makes it pleasant to me to review part scenes, and recall by-gone days. But you will want to learn something of our state. There is nothing very spe- cial in the state of religion among us. My people made us a very pleas ant donation visit the 1st day of March. They did not come as usual to my house but met at Dowd's hall in the village. It was well that they did as the roads were exceeding ly muddy at the time, and many of them could not have come to [?any?] house. Neither could we have con veniently accommodated such a multitude. Our good ladies provid- ed a sumptuous supper, and [?then?] ^people gave gifts to the amount of a hun dred dollars. There has been for a few days past quite an excitement in our place on the subject of baptism. Our baptist minister has been harping on the subject of baptism for two or three months almost constantly and dis- turbing tracts in families of other denominations in order to dissem inate his peculiar views upon im mersion. I felt it my duty to preach on the ^subject sabbath before last and en- deavoured to show that immersion was not essential to christian bap- tism. To my astonishment the baptist minister having heard of it came up with his pencil and paper to take notes on my sermon in order to reply to it. The Congre- gational minister was present and gave notice at the close of the meeting ^house that he would lecture on the subject in the congregational meeting ^house the next evening. He did so and the following evening, Wednesday the Baptist minister tried to answer but discovered so much ignorance that he injured his own cause. In- deed it was nearly a complete failure. The subject has excited much interest whether it will do good I know not. Last sabbath was our communion, we received two new members. Mr Cook died suddenly a few weeks ago. Mrs Horton is failing. My own family are well. Edward is teaching out acad- emy. Harriet and Emily attend his school. Henry is at Hudson. We are expecting to see George Wheeler this week. It will be something new for my children to see a cousin, some of them have never seen one. Give our love to all our friends and keep a large share for yourself. Affectionately yours V Noyes. 吉尔福德 1860 年 4 月 3 日 亲爱的Z姐姐 我会带一点 今天早上是时候回信了 我从你和 N 姐妹那里收到了关于 两周前。我总是很高兴 收到您的来信，应该非常 很高兴能见到你，但是 我是否会再次享有这项特权 在这个世界上只有主知道。 我们经常年老体弱 患上告诫我们的疾病 时间很短，我们正在接近我们长期的家。虽然我是 最小的家庭，但我开始 感受年龄的影响，我无法忍受 和以前一样多的劳动力。我们应该 如果我们没有希望，就做可怜的动物 超越坟墓的幸福。但希望 以后与基督同在，并像他一样，与所有人同在 那些被赎回的人 他的血是用来安慰和安慰的 为我们的尘世朝圣欢呼。 一想到在天堂遇见那些 我们认识和爱过的人& 接受甜蜜的建议是令人愉快的 并且可以使我们和解他们的损失 我们短暂逗留期间的陪伴 在这眼泪汪汪的地方。我可以说我 相信很少有家庭 曾有如此真挚、统一、长久的感情 就像我们的一样。从来没有想过 破坏或扰乱我们的依恋和 对彼此的感情，我感到 相信什么都不会。这个 让我愉快地回顾 部分场景，回忆过去的日子。 但是你会想学点东西 我们的州。他们的宗教状况并没有什么特别之处 我们。我的人民让我们非常恳求 蚂蚁捐赠参观第一天 行进。他们没有像往常一样来 到我家，但在多德家见面 村子里的大厅。这很好 他们这样做了，因为当时的道路非常泥泞，而且许多 他们不可能来任何 屋。我们也不能方便地容纳这样一个 民众。我们的好女士提供了丰盛的晚餐，然后 人们送礼物的金额达一匈奴 美元。 过去几天有 在我们的地方相当令人兴奋 洗礼的主题。我们的浸信会 部长一直在喋喋不休 两三个人的洗礼对象 几个月几乎不断和令人不安的大片在其他家庭 教派，以便在沉浸时传播他的独特观点。我觉得传道是我的责任 在前一个安息日这个主题上，并努力表现出那种沉浸感 对基督教洗礼来说不是必不可少的。令我惊讶的是浸信会 部长听说来了 拿起他的铅笔和纸 为我的讲道做笔记 为了回复它。这 公理部部长出席 并在结束时发出通知 他要讲课的会议室 关于会众的主题 第二天晚上的会议室。他这样做了 第二天晚上，星期三 浸信会牧师试图回答 但发现了很多无知 他伤害了自己的事业。事实上，这几乎是一次彻底的失败。 这个话题引起了很大的兴趣 我不知道它是否会有好处。 最后一个安息日是我们的圣餐，我们 收到了两个新成员。 库克先生几周前突然去世。 霍顿夫人失败了。我自己的家人 很好。爱德华在学院教书。哈丽特和艾米丽参加他的 学校。亨利在哈德逊。我们是 期待本周见到乔治·惠勒。 这对我来说将是新的 孩子们去看表弟，其中一些 从来没有见过。把我们的爱献给所有人 我们的朋友，并为 你自己。深情的你 V 诺伊斯。 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from V Noyes to Sister Z., April 3, 1860 Subject The topic of the resource Aging; Future life; Baptism Description An account of the resource Varnum writes to his sister in response to her and sister N.'s letter. He hopes he will see them again before he is too weak, but is comforted by the promise of the afterlife. Muddy roads relocated Varnum's congregation to Dowd's hall from his house, and they gave significant donations. A local Baptist minister had prepared to rebuke Varnum's preaching but undermined himself in response to a Congregational minister. Mr. Cook has died, Mrs. Horton is near death, and Edward is teaching at Harriet and Emily's school. Henry is at Hudson and George Wheeler is visiting. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-04-02 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_884 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <a href="https://www.geonames.org/5156627/guilford.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guilford</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5158164/hudson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hudson</a> baptism Christianity death family missionary work https://noyesletters.org/files/original/d77bab102e8eb591a24cac5ef1be0181.pdf 485065275bf480b5af9209bb797c6f20 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document [Note: Sideways in the right hand margin] Tomorrow is my birth day and I must write to Sister [?L?] if I can [Note: Typed out heading for the letter] ARMY COMMITTEE OF WESTERN PENN'A REPRESENTING THE UNITED STATES CHRISTIAN COMMISSION Rev. HERRICK JOHNSON, Pres't. ROBT. C. TOTTEN, Sec'y. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Hon. ROBT M'KNIGHT, Chairman. ROBT. C. TOTTEN, JOSEPH ALBREE, Treasurer. JOHN R. McCUNE, WM. P. WEYMAN, Receiver. JOSEPH HORNE. Send all money to JOSEPH ALBREE, Treasurer, No. 71 Wood Street. Mark all Boxes of Stores, W.P. Weyman, No. 76 Smithfield Street. [--Pittsburgh--], Guilford June ^30 1864 [Note: Handwritten] My dear daughter, As I have run out of letter paper, I will send back to Penn. a sheet which came from there. I received your letter last week and perhaps ought to have answered it soon er, but I have so many temporal cares at present that I find but little time to write or study. I was glad to re- ceive your letter, and hope you will not allow your great "[u]embarrassment[/u]" pre vent you from writing me again. We received your epistle to Sarah last eve- ning and did not consider its length as an objectionable feature. We are all enjoying our usual health Last tuesday Edward and myself at- tended the meeting of Wooster Pres- bytery at Congress, which met for the purpose of ordaining Messrs Myers and Leyenbergar. Other mem- bers of the family would like to have gone, but could not very conveniently. We saw the good brethren of Woos- ter Presbytery, and many other old ac- quaintances, among whom was the Rev Wm [William] McCandlish who formerly preached in Wooster. The exercises were very interesting. Each of the candidates for ordination preached a sermon, Mr M from the words, Go teach all nations &c, and Mr L. from the passage, He that goeth forth and weepeth bearing previous seed &c. Mr Barr preached the ordination ser- mon from the words of Paul. Unto me who am the least of all saints is this grace given &c. You will per- ceive from the subjects that all the sermons were considerably pervaded by the missionary element. I under- stand that Mr M. is going to India and Mr L. to China. In regard to personal ap- pearance Mr M. has decidedly the advan- tage. I hope these young men may live long to labour among the heathen. You have probably heard that [Note: underlined in red] two of our missionaries in India have been murdered. viz Messrs Janvier and [?Loerenthat?]. The latter was a very distinguished scholar. Mrs Julius Harris has been very sick, but is now a little better. Mr Rodnee Russel has been married to a Miss Price. I dont know as I have got the christian name of Mr Russel right, but perhaps you will be able to know who I mean. Andrew Dins more got the position in Wisconsin for which there were two candid ates. You may tell Henry that we have purchased a new [u]mowing machine[/u], which we tried yester- day and it works very well. We can now mow our meadows when we please, and not be dependent on other folks. We have had already several applications to mow for others. I am afraid the Seville musical as- sociation will not be entirely harmonious in respect to the con- cert. Mrs B. thinks she has not quite as conspicuous a part as she is deserving and I believe threatens the association with entire absence on the occasion. It is a pity here music al talents are not better appreciated. I understand the people here are going to get up a pic-nic on the 4th of July, the particulars I have not yet learned. I think probable an attempt will be made to replenish the funds of the soldier's aid society. Since writing the above Martha has very unexpectedly made her appearance among us. We were not expecting her till tomorrow. Her trip home was rather expen- sive, as she had to pay 2,50 for private conveyance from Haysville to Ashland. It has been dry weather for some time, but to day we have had some fine showers. We calculate to use [u]ned[/u] in our mowing machine if he will work. Rover is well but has sometimes short rations. It seems rather lonesome in Seville since the national guard left. We find it difficult to sustain our prayer meetings. Jacob Bell is here yet, though he has sold his blacksmith shop to [?Streeter?] the husband of Adeline Cook. I suppose you calculate to be at home in about two weeks. I do not know whether any of us will go to Hudson at Commencement. I do not think of any thing more at present that will be of particular interest. I hope you will try to live a life consecrated to the Service of Christ. Your Affectionate father V. Noyes [注：右侧边距横向] 明天是我的 生日那天，我必须 如果可以的话，写信给姐姐 [注意：输入字母的标题] 宾夕法尼亚州西部陆军委员会 代表 美国基督教委员会 赫里克约翰逊牧师，总统。罗伯特。 C. TOTTEN，秘书。 执行委员会： 汉。 ROBERT M'KNIGHT，主席。罗伯特。 C.托腾， 约瑟夫·阿尔布雷，财务主管。约翰·R·麦库恩， 西马。 P. WEYMAN，接收器。约瑟夫·霍恩。 把所有的钱寄到 JOSEPH ALBREE，财务主管，伍德街 71 号。 标记所有的商店盒子， W.P.韦曼，史密斯菲尔德街 76 号。 吉尔福德 1864 年 6 月 30 日 [注：手写] 我亲爱的女儿，因为我已经用完了 信纸，我会寄回给 宾州。从那里来的一张纸。 我上周收到了你的信 也许应该很快回答 呃，但我有很多时间上的顾虑 目前我发现的时间很少 写作或学习。很高兴收到你的来信，希望你能 不要让你的巨大“尴尬”阻止你再次给我写信。我们 昨晚收到你写给莎拉的信，没有考虑它的长度 作为一个令人反感的特征。 我们都在享受我们平时的健康 上周二，爱德华和我参加了在国会召开的伍斯特长老会会议，该会议为 任命先生的目的 迈尔斯和莱恩伯格。其他家庭成员希望拥有 走了，但不能很方便。 我们看到了伍斯特长老会的好兄弟，以及许多其他老熟人，其中包括 威廉·麦坎德利什牧师，他以前 在伍斯特传道。练习 非常有趣。每个 宣讲的圣职候选人 一个布道，M先生的话， 去教导所有国家&c，L先生。 从通道，他出去 并哭泣着带着先前的种子等。 巴尔先生用保罗的话宣讲了按立讲道。恩托 我是所有圣徒中最小的 是给予的恩典吗？你会从所有的主题中看出 布道相当普遍 由传教元素。我知道 M 先生要去印度 L.先生来中国。在个人形象方面，M 先生具有绝对优势。我希望这些年轻人能活下来 渴望在异教徒中劳作。 你可能听说过 [注：红色下划线] 两个 我们在印度的传教士有 被谋杀。詹维尔先生 和洛伦塔尔。后者是一个非常 杰出的学者。 朱利叶斯·哈里斯夫人病得很重， 但现在好一点了。罗德尼先生 罗素嫁给了一位小姐 价格。我不知道，因为我有 罗素先生的基督教名字 对，但也许你能 知道我的意思。安德鲁·丁斯 更多人在威斯康星州获得了职位 其中有两名候选人。你可以告诉亨利，我们 购买了新的割草机 机器，我们昨天试过了，效果很好。 我们现在可以在什么时候割草 我们取悦，不要依赖 在其他人身上。我们已经 为他人割草的几个应用程序。 恐怕塞维利亚音乐协会不会完全 在音乐会方面和谐。 B 夫人认为她没有 和她一样显眼的角色 是值得的，我相信威胁 与完全缺席的关联 场合。可惜这里的音乐 所有的才能都没有得到更好的赏识。 我明白这里的人 4号要起床野餐 七月，我没有的细节 还没学会。我认为很可能 将尝试补充 士兵援助协会的资金。 自从写了上面的玛莎 非常意外地出现了 在我们之间。我们没想到她 明天。她回家的旅行相当昂贵，因为她必须支付 2,50 的私人费用 从海斯维尔到阿什兰的交通工具。 天气干燥了一段时间，但 到今天为止，我们有一些很好的阵雨。 我们计算在我们的割草中使用 ned 机器，如果他会工作。罗孚很好，但是 有时口粮短缺。好像比较 自国民警卫队以来在塞维利亚寂寞 左边。我们发现很难维持我们的 祷告会。雅各布·贝尔（Jacob Bell）还在这里 他把他的铁匠铺卖给了斯特里特 艾德琳·库克的丈夫。我想你 计算大约两周后在家。 我不知道我们是否会去 哈德森在毕业典礼上。我不这样认为 任何现在将要发生的事情 特别感兴趣。我希望你会 尝试过一种献身于服务的生活 基督的。你深情的父亲 V. Noyes Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from V. Noyes to his Daughter, June 30, 1864 Subject The topic of the resource Letters; Health; Sermons; Missionaries; Murder; Travel Description An account of the resource In this letter most likely to Harriet, Varnum writes to her on United States Christian Commission stationery. Varnum mentions how he and Edward attended a meeting of Wooster Presbytery by Congress. He writes about Mr. M going to India and Mr. L going to China on missionary work. Two of their missionaries were murdered in China. Martha got home early, her trip from Hayesville to Ashland was very expensive. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1864-06-30 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_883 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <a href="https://www.geonames.org/5156633/township-of-guilford.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Township of Guilford</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5177358/wooster.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wooster</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5171681/seville.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Seville</a> death health music Presbyterian Church https://noyesletters.org/files/original/de16a0023fc3753cbce2e98dabc188f8.pdf 890db0e63f525ae3bea6dfa2cdeecf6b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Guilford Aug. 2, 1864 Dear Son F. I received your let- ter of the 16th July and should have answered it sooner had not Harriet written. I supposed you would not care about having two letters about the same time and so I deferred writing a few days. We are glad to hear that you keep so well and hope you may continue to enjoy health till you return. There seems to be a considerable more sickness in the Montville and Layfayette com panies than in yours. There was a report here that James Saw was dead but it has been contradicted. The death of Henry Shaw was a severe stroke on his father, wife, and children. I suppose you have heard of the death of [?Elder?] Shanes' son who was in the Cumberland army. He was killed in an assault on a rebel fortification. Report says that our hundred day men are coming home next week. I guess most of them will be glad to get home. Our township are at- tempting to raise money to hire men to fill our quota so as to have no draft in the township. I understand they can obtain 40 men for eight thousand dollars. I am apprehensive it will be somewhat difficult to raise that amount. I should be glad if we might, for I do not like drafting if it can be avoided. We have got along finely with our [?h ?] so far. Our mowing ma chine is a nice institution. Edward has mowed some for other folks. We also cut some of Mr Shaws hay on [?Thurs?]. The boys have helped him through with his haying and all cutting his oats. The weather of late has been quite dry and corn and potatoes have suffered some from drought but last night and to day we have had an abundance of rain. Things now look fresh and green. Edward is going to try his luck at teaching school in Medina. I hope he may succeed this time. There have been some recent deaths in the place. Mr Hays father of Dr Hays, and Mr Noyes who lived till lately on the Glor- ton place are both dead. The funeral of the last will proba bly be attended to day. Our life is a shadow, vain, treasured and uncertain. I ought to have make a new date before the last few lines as I am now writing on the [?3rd?] of the month. Last evening we had a letter from Martha. She gave us an account of the mar riage of prof Diefendorf. You are perhaps aware that it is only ten or twelve weeks since he bur ried his first wife. The students appear to be dissatisfied with such haste in marrying again. We expect to see Gilbert Gay and his wife this afternoon. They will come on the Great Western Rail Road. They will spend several days with us. I expect we shall have the satisfaction of hear ing Gilbert preach next Sabbath. Tomorrow is our national [?part?] day. I hope it will ^be suitably observed. We have a prayer meeting at the Baptist church in the morning and it in the Presbyterian Church at 8'o clock in the evening. Last evening paper gives an account of Grants attack on Pe tersburg and of the Rebel raid into Pennsylvania. It seems Grants attack was unsuccessful. I hope Grant will succeed as his success will probably end the rebellion. Mr Shaws folds have had a letter from Dan. He does not think you will get home next week. I should not think the government would send home the hundred days men which the [?Rebs?] are receiving in Penn. I hope you will take good care of your health and keep up your prayer meeting as long as you stay. Write soon. We are all well. Young affectionate father Varnum Noyes 吉尔福德 1864 年 8 月 2 日 亲爱的儿子 F。 我收到了你 7 月 16 日的来信，应该有 哈丽特没有早点回答 书面。我以为你不会 关心有两个关于的字母 在同一时间，所以我推迟了 写几天。我们很高兴 听说你保持得这么好 希望你可以继续享受 健康直到你回来。似乎有 是一种相当多的疾病 在 Montville 和 Layfayette 的公司比在你的公司。有 这里的一份报告说詹姆斯·索是 死了，但它已被收回。 亨利·肖的死是一个 他的父亲、妻子严重中风， 和孩子。我想你有 听说谢恩斯长老死了 在坎伯兰郡的儿子 军队。他在一次袭击中丧生 在叛军的防御工事上。报告 说我们的百日男人 下周就要回家了。我 猜他们中的大多数人会很高兴 回家。我们的乡镇正试图筹集资金雇用 男人来填补我们的配额，以便 乡镇没有吃水。 我知道他们可以获得 40 八千美元的男人。 我很担心它会是 有点难以提出 数量。我应该很高兴，如果我们 可能，因为我不喜欢起草 如果可以避免的话。 我们和我们相处得很好 拥有至今。我们的割草机 中国是一个不错的机构。爱德华 为其他人修剪了一些。 我们还砍掉了一些肖斯先生的干草 星期四。男孩们帮助了他 通过他的干草和所有 切他的燕麦。天气 最近天气很干燥，玉米 土豆受了一些苦 从干旱，但昨晚和 今天我们有丰富的 的雨。事情现在看起来很新鲜 绿色。爱德华要试试他的 在教学学校的运气 在麦地那。我希望他能成功 这次。已经有一些 该地方最近发生的死亡事件。海斯先生 海斯博士和诺伊斯先生的父亲 直到最近还住在格洛顿庄园的人都死了。这 最后的葬礼可能会在今天举行。我们的生活 是一个影子，虚荣，珍贵， 不确定。我应该做 最后几个日期之前的新日期 就像我现在写的那样 月 3 日。昨天晚上 我们收到了玛莎的来信。她 给我们讲述了迪芬多夫教授的婚姻。你是 也许意识到它只是 他埋葬了他的第一任妻子十到十二周。学生们 似乎对这样的事情不满意 赶紧再婚。我们期待 看到吉尔伯特盖伊和他的妻子这个 下午。他们将登上伟大的 西部铁路。他们将花费 和我们在一起几天。我希望我们 听得满足 吉尔伯特下个安息日讲道。 明天是我们的国庆日。 我希望它会得到适当的观察。我们 在浸信会举行祷告会 早上的教堂，它在 8点钟的长老会教堂 晚上。昨晚的报纸给了 格兰特袭击彼得堡和叛军突袭 宾夕法尼亚州。似乎格兰特攻击 没有成功。我希望格兰特会 成功，因为他的成功可能会 结束叛乱。肖先生褶皱有 收到了丹的一封信。他没有 想你下周会回家。 我不应该认为政府 会送回家一百天 雷布斯正在接受的人 宾州。希望你好好照顾 你的健康，保持你的祈祷 只要你留下来见面。尽快回信。 我们都很好。你慈爱的父亲 瓦努姆·诺伊斯 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Varnum to Son F., August 2, 1864 Subject The topic of the resource Letters; Death; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Crops--Effect of drought on; Marriage; Prayer meetings; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Description An account of the resource Reverend Varnum writes to his son, Francis, having meant to do so earlier before Harriet wrote him. Varnum states that there is much illness in the Montville and Layfayette companies and reports on the deaths of mutual acquaintances. He also discusses farming and the effects of the drought. Varnum provides updates on various individuals. For example, Gilbert Gay is arriving by way of the Great Western Rail Road. He further writes about the Civil War, stating that he had read of Grant's attack of Petersburg and of the Southern invasion of Pennsylvania. He hopes that Grant's future endeavors will be met with more success. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1864-08-02 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_882 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <a href="https://www.geonames.org/5156627/guilford.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guilford</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5163386/montville.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Montville</a><br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/4509720/cumberland.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cumberland</a>&nbsp;<br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5162512/medina.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Medina</a>&nbsp;<br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/5166563/petersburg.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Petersburg</a>&nbsp;<br /><a href="https://www.geonames.org/6254927/pennsylvania.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pennsylvania</a> The United States Civil War, 1861-65 death farming illness politics soldiers war https://noyesletters.org/files/original/abd1e7459034629ea4e2bf2372c56918.pdf 4286de902cd82b9c86e82180799c2f68 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Seville July 1, 1882 My Dear Daughter I suppose you may think of me to day as it is my birth day, and very likely you imagine I shall spend a portion of it in writing you a letter. I also have some expectation that you will find a little time to write to me. Your letters dated about the 20th of May reached us day before yesterday. Among them was one for me and enclosed a nice piece of [?party?] for which you will please accept my thanks. I am writing with a goose quill pen which you will perceive does poor execution but perhaps you will be able to read it. I shall not trouble you to read but one sheet as I must write to Henry also. It is a delightful day. Yesterday we had two fine showers one about 11 AM and the other about 6 P.M. To day we are having a nice cool breeze which makes it very comfortable. This morning I read in our family worship the 90th Ps. the one, perhaps you will recollect, that Henry read the morning he first left us when he started for China. We went down to Mr Crane's in the afternoon and parted with Henry and Cynthia at the depot in the evening. That event is now far in the past, and gret and important events have taken place since. God in his won- derful forbearance and long suffering has seen fit to continue my life to the present time; how much longer I shall tarry in the flesh is known only to him that know- ith all things. Since writing the above I have attended the funeral of David Winters whose parents live in the place formerly owned by Sew- el Colburn at the center of the township. He was nearly of age and as his father was a dunker (Dunker) and his mother a Presby terian Mr Elliott and a Dunker preacher attended his funeral. They both spoke very favorably of his character. Yesterday as we learn Guitteau was hung. No more effort will therefore be made to obtain a pardon or reprieve for him. Every possible method has been resorted to, to get him clear, but the law has finally been executed. I suppose you have heard of the death of Judge Hosmer. I believe he adhered to his infidelety to the last, and infidels were called from Medina to attend his funeral. I was not there, but understood those infidels found some difficul ty to find any thing to say on the occasion. July 4. I will finish this letter, begun on my own birthday, on the birthday of our Nation. We have had a cold, uncomfortable, drizzly forenoon but now a 2 o'clock P.M. it looks a little more like clearing off. Maria is with us, came last evening, and the weather is so cool, we have to keep a five in our parlor to keep warm. No celebration at Seville this year. The day was to be celebrated at the lake bed I presume it is nearly a failure. It was nice that your box reached us this forenoon, with presents for which you will accept our thanks. Your precious dollar sent to me I will endeavor to invest in something (per haps a book) which may be profitable to me while living and to others when I am gone. The children at home on my birth day presented me with a fine teacher's bible to use in my bible class. With much love your father V. Noyes. 塞维利亚 1882 年 7 月 1 日 我亲爱的女儿 我想你可能 今天想我，因为它是我的 生日那天，很可能你 想象我会花一部分 给你写一封信。我 也有些期待 你会找到一点时间 写给我。你的来信日期 5月20日左右到达 我们前天。之中 他们是我的一个，封闭的 一个不错的聚会 你会接受我的 谢谢。我正在写一个 你会用的鹅毛笔 感知执行不佳，但 也许您将能够阅读 它。我不会麻烦你 我必须阅读一张纸 也写信给亨利。它是一个 愉快的一天。昨天我们有 上午 11 点左右有两次细阵雨 另一个是下午 6 点左右。今天 我们有凉爽的微风 这使它非常舒适。 今天早上我在我们家读到 崇拜第 90 首诗篇，也许 你会记得，亨利读过 他第一次离开我们的那个早晨 他开始为中国。我们下去了 下午去克兰先生家 与亨利和辛西娅分手 晚上的仓库。那 事件现在已成为过去，并且 重大而重要的事件有 以来发生。上帝在他奇妙的忍耐和长期的苦难中 认为适合继续我的生活 到现在；多少钱 我将在肉体中停留更长的时间 只有那无所不知的人才知道。 自从写了上面我有 参加大卫的葬礼 父母住的温特斯 Sew以前拥有的地方- 位于中心的 el Colburn 乡。他快成年了 因为他的父亲是个扣篮手 (Dunker) 和他的母亲是一位长老会的 Elliott 先生和一位 Dunker 牧师参加了他的葬礼。 两人说话都非常赞 他的性格。昨天我们 得知吉托被挂了。不再 因此将努力 获得赦免或缓刑 他。每一种可能的方法都已 诉诸于，让他明白，但 法律终于得到执行。 我想你听说过 霍斯默法官之死。我相信 他坚持自己的不忠 最后，异教徒被称为 从麦地那参加他的葬礼。 我不在，但我明白 那些异教徒发现很难找到任何话要说 场合。 7 月 4 日。我会写完这封信，开始 在我自己的生日，在 我们国家的生日。我们有过 寒冷、不舒服、下着毛毛雨的上午 但现在是下午 2 点。它看起来 有点像清理。玛丽亚是 和我们一起，昨晚来了， 天气这么凉，我们要坚持 在我们的客厅里有一个五人取暖。 今年在塞维利亚没有庆祝活动。这 这一天将在 湖床我想它几乎是 失败。很高兴你的盒子 今天下午到了我们这里，带着礼物 你会接受我们的感谢。 你的宝贵美元寄给我，我会 努力投资于可能有利可图的东西（可能是一本书） 对我和其他人 当我走了。孩子们在家里 在我生日那天送给我一个 很好的教师圣经在我的圣经中使用 班级。非常爱你的父亲 五、诺伊斯。 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from V. Noyes to "My Dear Daughter," July 1, 1882 Subject The topic of the resource Birthdays; Death; Capital punishment; Hanging; Fourth of July; Salvation of infidels; Biblical teaching Description An account of the resource Varnum Noyes starts writing this letter on the day of his birthday and finishes it on July 4th. He remembers the day that Henry left for China. Varnum went to David Winter's funeral. Guitteau was hanged, as decided by the law. He also writes about infidels. Varnum received a teacher's Bible for his birthday. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a>, Box #3 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1882-07-01 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_867 birthdays Christianity court case death friends funerals laws https://noyesletters.org/files/original/95541e7237207cadaa18d9cead146473.pdf fe2183593f6b085f910930d82bf45c74 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document [Note: Additional note upside down on page one] My kind regard To your colabour ers. Seville Nov 6 1882 My Dear Daughter This is monday and you can probably ima- gine what is going on indoors at the old homestead. Clara with the assistance of Mary is doing up our big washing, Mar- tha and her mother are tak- ing care of Edward and do- ing housework. I have chopped a little wood and got our turnips into the cellar. I be- lieve I have now got every thing gathered in excepting the cabages, and perhaps they will be in the cllar before night. It is just six weeks today since Edward got hurt. He has kept his bed all this time with the exception of a short time yesterday when we got him into a chair. From present appearances it will be a long time before he will recover. He is getting tired of lying in bed though he has bourne it with much patience. The Lord has given me such a measure of health that I have made out to manage our affairs pretty well with some hired help. We made a husking bee week before last one after noon and our kind neighbors came and husked all our corn nicely. We had not very much, only about two acres. I shall be glad when Edward gets well enough to relieve me of the cares which I now have to bear. I must tell you the use I have made of part of the funds you so generously sent me. The order for five pounds when cashed amounted to about twenty four dollars. The gold dollar you sent me as a birth day present I invested in a book the title of which is "Nearing Home." The book is a compilation in prose and poetry by Dr Schenck Sec. of the Board of Publication It cost a dollar and sixty cts ($1.60) and that the whole might be your gift I appropriated [--fifty--] sixty cents from proceeds of the order. It is a nice book for aged people, the poetry being much like and some the very same as is found in "Heaven in song." I have also purchased with the avails of the order cotton cloth for shirts and wrappers amounting to $1,27, a coat and Vest $7,00, Pants 3,72, using $12,59 of the order, a little more than one half. The remainder about $11,40. I [?design?] to lay out for your mother. I purchased cloth for three shirts, two wrapper, & [--one--] a suit of winter clothes for twelve dollars, the pants were not made up. I think this is pretty cheap. I suppose you have seen the comet which was splendid two or three weeks ago but is fast fading away. The weather is grow- ing cold. I dread the winter, and so does my brother Augustus as his daughter informs us. There is not much interest here in the subject of religion. O that the Lord would revive his work among us, and that like Simeon I might before I die see the salvation of God displayed in a glorious revival of religion. May our kind Father give you health and greatly bless your labours. Affectionately your father V. Noyes [注：附加说明倒置在第一页] 我亲切的问候 给你的合作者。 塞维利亚 1882 年 11 月 6 日 我亲爱的女儿 这是星期一 你大概可以想象室内发生了什么 在旧宅基地。克拉拉 在玛丽的帮助下 正在洗我们的大衣服，玛莎和她妈妈正在照顾爱德华，然后—— 做家务。我切过 一点木头，得到了我们的 萝卜进地窖。我相信我现在得到了每一个 东西聚集在除了 卷心菜，也许他们会 晚上前在地窖里。 今天才六周 因为爱德华受伤了。他有 一直守着他的床 除了短 昨天我们得到的时间 他坐到椅子上。从现在开始 看起来会很长 在他恢复之前的时间。他 厌倦了躺在床上 虽然他生来就有很多 耐心。主已赐给我 这样的健康措施 我已经做出来管理我们的 和一些人相处得很好 聘请帮助。我们做了脱壳 蜜蜂 前 一周 后 一周 中午和我们好心的邻居 来剥了我们所有的 玉米很好。我们没有很 很多，只有大约两英亩。 当爱德华 好到可以缓解 我现在的烦恼 不得不承受。我必须告诉 你是我的用途 您的部分资金 如此慷慨地送我。这 订购五磅时 兑现金额约为 二十四美元。黄金 出生时你寄给我的美元 今天我投资了一个 书名是 “快到家了。”本书是一个 散文和诗歌汇编 由申克 Sec 博士撰写。董事会成员 出版成本一美元 还有六十美分（1.60 美元）和那个 整体可能是你的礼物 我从 订单的收益。它是一个 适合老年人的好书， 诗很像 和一些非常相同的 出现在“歌中的天堂”中。 我也购买了 订购棉花的好处 衬衫和包装布 价值 1.27 美元，一件外套和 背心 7,00 美元，裤子 3,72 美元，使用 12,59 美元 订单，比一半多一点。 其余约 11,40 美元。我设计 为你妈妈准备。 我买了三件衬衫的布料， 两件茄衣，一件冬装 十二美元的衣服， 裤子没有化妆。 我认为这很便宜。 我想你已经看过 出色的彗星二 或三周前，但很快 逐渐消失。天气越来越冷。我害怕冬天，而且 我的兄弟奥古斯都也是 女儿告诉我们。那没有 对这个主题很感兴趣 的宗教。哦，愿主 复兴他在我们中间的工作，并且 像我以前可能的西蒙 我死了看到上帝的救恩 展现了辉煌的复兴 宗教。愿我们慈爱的父亲赐予 你健康，大大祝福你的劳动。 深情的你父亲 五、诺伊斯 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from V. Noyes to "My Dear Daughter," November 6, 1882 Subject The topic of the resource Family; Health; Corn--Harvesting time; Money; Gifts Description An account of the resource Varnum Noyes writes to Harriet about what is going on at home. Edward got hurt six weeks ago and has been bedridden ever since. Varnum thinks that it will be a while longer until he is recovered. They have been able to manage with some help with things like husking the corn but Varnum looks forward to when Edward can work again. Varnum tells Harriet about what they have been using the money she sent them for; he bought a book. He concludes by praising his daughter for her religious work. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a>, Box #3 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1882-11-6 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <p><a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a></p> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_868 Christianity clothing family farming presents weather https://noyesletters.org/files/original/7ba5ac80c6235f2e709661c94cf14b83.pdf 06f9d5130c2d7e8d8701887e21b96b37 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Seville Oct. 3. 1883 My Dear Daughter [Note: Written in blue ink] Riots [?ag. the?] French [Note: Written in pencil] Imperialism Oriental Excl. Act Deplored Your last letters arrived at Seville just four weeks from the time they were mailed; they were mailed Sept 1st and reached here the 29th. I think this is the 1st instance in which letters from China were mailed and receiv- ed the same month. You men tioned in your two last letters that a boy had been murdered and a man and a [?womat?] wound- ed by some drunken Englishmen. We have learned from the N.Y. Observer that there has since been a mob by which several buildings of the English were burned, and that there was a [--a--] considerable excitement in the city. We are anxious to hear more about it, but as the newspapers have not published any thing since the 1st report, we hope things have become quiet. I do hope the French will get their difficulties settled with the Chinese without war. The French seem of late to have got the annexation fever, they want to annex to their nation a con- siderable portion of Africa and are disposed to interfere with our Missionary operations in that country. I hope the United States will soon see the propriety of repealing the partial once [u] abominable [/u] laws they have enacted respecting the Chinese. It is too bad that our nation should have the unenviable singularity of being the only nation upon the face of our globe that pro- hibits Chinese migration, and that 3 These statistics show that only 6, out of 96 who lived over 75 years, lived to be 90 or more years old, only 12 more lived to be over 85 years old. Ministers as you are aware are dis- tinguished for longevity, so we cannot expect any other class of men would show a result more favorable than they. In regard to my own personal case I neither know nor wish to know what will be the period of my earthly existence. I know that my strength is failing and that the "last of earth" cannot be very far away, and it is or should be my chief concern so to live that I may be prepared to meet that event whenever it shall come. I do not write much of the news of the day and I could not if I would, as my hearing is so impaired that I hear but very little conver- sation. Our corn was considerably damaged by the frost. Potatoes were ripe and "lifted" before the frost came. Our Bees are not doing remarkably well. Only two swarms lived through the winter. From these we had two swarms in may, two in July, and one the 23rd of Aug! If the old saying is true that a swarm in July is not worth a fly I do not know what to say of a swarm in August. We use George Wheeler's patent hives but for some reason the[--y--] bees will not store their honey in the honey boxes. One grape vine on the east end of the buggy shed produced some nice grapes, though not as many as last year. Apples are not plenty but we have some I continue to teach (not [?join?]) my bible class. Kind regards to your associates in the mission. Your affectionate father V Noyes [Written upside down] I suppose I [write] direct to Hattie not Harriet 塞维利亚 1883 年 10 月 3 日 我亲爱的女儿 [注：用蓝色墨水书写] [注：用铅笔书写] 你的最后一封信 四点就到了塞维利亚 几周后 邮寄；他们被邮寄 9 月 1 日到达这里 29 日。我认为这是第一个 来信的例子 中国是同月邮寄和收到的。你在最后两封信中提到 一个男孩被谋杀了 还有一男一女被几个喝醉的英国人打伤。 我们从纽约学到了。 观察者自那以后 是一个暴徒，其中几个 英国人的建筑是 烧毁，并且有一个 相当的兴奋 城市。我们渴望听到更多 关于它，但作为报纸 从那以后没有发表任何东西 第一次报告，我们希望事情有 变得安静。我希望 法国人会遇到困难 与中国人定居 战争。法国人似乎迟到了 得了吞并热，他们想要 将非洲的相当大一部分并入其国家， 倾向于干扰我们的 在那个国家的传教活动。 希望美国快点 看废除的适当性 部分曾经可恶的法律 他们制定了尊重 中国人。可惜我们的 国家应该有不值得羡慕的 作为唯一国家的奇点 在我们禁止中国移民的地球上， 3 这些统计数据表明，只有 6，在 96 人中超过 75 岁， 活到90岁以上，只有12岁 更多人活到85岁以上。 如你所知，传道人以长寿而著称，所以我们 不能指望任何其他类别的 男人会更多地显示结果 比他们有利。 关于我个人的情况 我既不知道也不希望 知道会是什么时期 我的尘世存在。我知道 我的力量正在衰退 还有那个“地球上的最后一个” 不能离得很远，并且 它是或应该是我的首席 关心这样的生活，我可以 准备好迎接那个事件 无论何时到来。 我很少写新闻 我不能，如果我愿意， 因为我的听力如此受损 我听到的只是很少的谈话。我们的玉米相当 被霜冻损坏。土豆 在 霜来了。我们的蜜蜂没有做 非常好。只有两群 度过了冬天。从 这些我们有两个群体 5 月，2 次在 7 月，1 次 8月23日！如果那句老话是 确实，七月的蜂群是 不值得飞我不知道 八月的蜂群怎么说。 我们使用 George Wheeler 的专利蜂箱 但由于某种原因蜜蜂不会 将蜂蜜储存在蜂蜜盒中。 东端的一棵葡萄藤 车棚结出了一些好葡萄， 虽然没有去年那么多。 苹果不多，但我们有一些 我继续教（不参加）我的圣经课。 向您在任务中的同事致以亲切的问候。 你深情的父亲 V Noyes 【倒过来写】 我想我 [写]直接到 海蒂不是哈丽特 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Varnum to Daughter, October 3, 1883 Subject The topic of the resource Letters; Murder; Annexation (International law); Chinese--Migrations; Longevity; Mortality--Statistics; Corn--Frost damage; Bee culture; Imperialism Description An account of the resource Varnum writes to his daughter having heard of the murder of a Chinese man by a drunken English mob. He hopes that the French annexations of territories around the world will relax so that missionary efforts can continue without interruption. He also laments that the United States has barred Chinese immigrants from its borders and states that their longevity is similar to that of ministers. He feels his strength waning as if near death. He concludes by reporting on the farm. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Reverend Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1883-10-03 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_829 age death farming fires immigration imperialism murder seasons sinophobia violence https://noyesletters.org/files/original/ac3530cbaa5d0fbbebe613b25d954da6.pdf 2c3351040090774873029561ae60cf23 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Sacramento Aug 17th 1878 My dear Sarah I must write a few lines to you this morning. Tell mother I thank her very much for the good birth-day letter. I guess I must write to you about my visit to [--Placeville--] San Francisco. I went Tuesday & came back Friday. The way it happened when I was at Placeville Mrs Wilson who is working for the Chinese then told me about two Chinese woman who wished to escape from the life of bondage which they were leading but did not know how to get away. I suppose you know the character of most of the Chinese women on this coast. Mrs Wilson had told them about the Womans Home in San Francisco & they were anxious to get there. She did not think it would do for them to try to go by train from there but said they could be taken by private conveyance to Sacramento. She said they would [--not--] need to stop in Sacramento a day or so perhaps & I told her to send them right to our house. They came [--yest--] Tuesday about 10-o-clock and I start at 4-o-clock for San Fran- cisco and got through without any detention. They brought them from Placeville in the night. A man with one horse brought them. He had some [--Ha--] hay on the bottom of his wagon. They lay down on the hay and were covered up with blankets so as to seem like a load of something after they got out some dis- tance they got on the seat they had a long hard ride but got through safely and at 1/2 past 9 PM I landed them safely in San Francisco at the Home. It was a sort of underground railroad experience. I thought of the way the negroes used to escape. The masters of these women went to the sheriff[--s--] at 11-o-clock AM on Tuesday to try to get them arrested but the minister there had already told the officers about it and the sheriff told them that if they undertook to hinder the escape he would arrest them Now I must close as I am going with some friends to see the capital, will write more at some future time. Ever so much love to you all Yours Sincerely H.V. Noyes 萨克拉门托 8 月 17 日 1878年 我亲爱的莎拉 我必须写几行 今天早上给你。告诉妈妈我 非常感谢她的好 生日信。我想我必须 写信给你关于我的访问 旧金山。我去了 周二&周五回来。这 当我在 正在工作的普雷斯维尔威尔逊夫人 对于中国人然后告诉我 两个想要的中国女人 摆脱束缚的生活 他们领先但做到了 不知道如何逃脱。我想 你知道大多数人的性格 这片海岸上的中国妇女。 威尔逊夫人告诉他们关于 旧金山女人之家 & 他们急于到达那里。她 没想到会为 他们试着从那里坐火车去 但说他们可以被 前往萨克拉门托的私人交通工具。 她说他们需要 在萨克拉门托停留一天或 所以也许＆我告诉她发送 他们直接到我们家。他们 周二来的 10点，我开始 凌晨 4 点到旧金山，没有通过 任何拘留。他们带来了 他们来自普莱斯维尔 夜晚。一个男人有一个 马带来了他们。他有 底部有一些干草 他的马车。他们躺下 在干草上，被覆盖 盖上毯子，以便 看起来像是一堆东西 走出一段距离后，他们坐到了座位上 他们经历了漫长的艰难旅程 但安全通过 晚上 9 点 1/2 时，我降落了 他们安全地在旧金山 在家里。那是个 某种地下铁路 经验。我想到了 黑人过去的方式 逃脱。大师们 这些女人去了 上午 11 点的警长 周二试图得到他们 被捕，但部长 那里已经告诉 官员关于它和 治安官告诉他们，如果他们 承诺阻碍 逃跑他会逮捕他们 现在我必须像现在一样关闭 和一些朋友一起去 看到首都，会写 更多在未来的某个时间。 永远爱你们所有人 此致 H.V.诺伊斯 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Henry to Sarah, August 17, 1878 Subject The topic of the resource Birthdays; Sheriffs; Servitudes--Unites States Description An account of the resource Henry writes to Sarah asking her to thank their mother for the birthday letter. He writes about being in San Francisco and Placeville where Mrs. Wilson has been helping two Chinese women who wanted to get out of their life of bondage and go to a women's home. The women were brought to Henry's house in the middle of the night. The masters of the women went to the sheriff to get the women back but the sheriff protected the women. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Henry Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1878-08-17 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_573 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <a href="https://www.geonames.org/5391959/san-francisco.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">San Francisco</a> travel women's rights https://noyesletters.org/files/original/73f70e88a69729f5ea468e9482336df7.pdf 269595ec83c05831c4bc91c8c663abe8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Rev. Varnum Noyes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Description An account of the resource These are letters from the father of the Noyes' missionaries, Reverend Varnum Noyes. He writes to his siblings, parents, and children. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noyes Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833-1887 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Subject The topic of the resource Clergy; Fathers; Letters; Marriage; Family; Children; Travel; Moving, Household Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Seville Jan 17, 1876 My Dear Daughter Martha I believe I am in- debted to you for a letter received about a month ago. By the last package which was sent about two weeks ago you have probably learned that your brother Fran cis was called away on the 22nd of Dec. I suppose from previous letters you was in some measure prepared for the mournful intelligence. Although he had been wasting away for a long time yet his death came upon us sudden ly at last. I was looking for it more than the rest of the family. I retired several nights before he passed away with some expectation of being called up before morn ing to see him expire. The last night he lived he was rather restless and complain ed of more pain than usual. The last day I sat by his bed most of the day holding his hand in mine. He looked at me almost incessantly and seemed un- willing that I should leave him. I could not converse much with him on account of my deafness. I quoted to him that blessed passage of scripture found in Rev. 21. 4. & remarked that all the sufferings of the people of God were experienced in this world. I do not know whether he was aware that his end was so near, or whether we did right in not informing him. The fam ily had apprehensions that any agitation of his mind might hasten the end. He seemed throughout his sickness to put his trust wholy in the Saviour. He made a remark to me once something like that his past life had a bad aspect. I told him we did not depend on our own works but on Christ to save us. I feel a good de gree of assurance that it is well with him. His mother and sister took the very best care of him and we endeavor ed to supply his every want. I have never had as implicit confidence in his medical treatment as some of the rest, but I believe he was entirely satisfied. The family got a good deal run down by taking care of him by day and by night but they are getting rested and recusited. His body was interned on the north side of the grave of his beloved wife. I am now having one of my old fashioned colds. It affects my head so that I cannot read much. I hope I shall be well of it in a few days. The church in Lafayette wish me to be with them next Sabbath. They are having quite a revival among them. I think they number 15 or 20 communions. A Mr Chapman who has been a colporteur of our Board in Wooster Presbytery has been laboring among them for several weeks and his his labours seem to have been blessed, but he is not an ordained minister and for that reason they wish me to come and administer to them the Lord's supper and perhaps the ordinance of baptism. I am rejoiced to learn that that church is likely to live and prosper. The Baptists dedicated their new Church here last Thurs day. Unless they warm it better than they did dedication day I fear they will not have a very crowded choir. The Presbyterian church has just the same number of communicants that it had a year ago. The Methodists are holding a protracted meeting with what success I know now. Edward is giving good satisfaction as superintend ant of our Sabbath School. I think he will be very useful. I suppose ere this you are through with the trial of parting with Henry and Hattie. I pitty you. May you be supported. Your loving father V. Noyes 塞维利亚 1876 年 1 月 17 日 我亲爱的女儿玛莎 我相信我很感谢你一个月前收到的一封信。 通过大约两周前寄出的最后一个包裹， 您可能已经得知您的兄弟弗朗西斯在 12 月 22 日被叫走了。 我想从之前的信件中， 您在一定程度上为悲痛的情报做好了准备。 虽然他已经消瘦了很久， 但他的死终于突然降临在我们身上。 我比家里其他人都在寻找它。 我在他去世前的几个晚上退休了， 期待在早上之前被叫到他去世。 他住的最后一个晚上， 他相当不安， 抱怨比平时更痛苦。 最后一天， 我大部分时间都坐在他的床边， 握着他的手。 他几乎不停地看着我， 似乎不愿意我离开他。 由于我的耳聋， 我无法与他交谈太多。 我向他引用了启示录 21. 4. 中的一段祝福经文， 并说在这个世界上经历了上帝子民的所有苦难。 我不知道他是否意识到他的结局如此接近， 或者我们没有通知他是否正确。 家人担心他的任何情绪激动都可能加速结局。 他似乎在整个疾病期间都完全信赖救主。 有一次他跟我说过他的前世有不好的一面。 我告诉他， 我们不是靠自己的行为， 而是靠基督来拯救我们。 我很确定他很好。 他的母亲和姐姐把他照顾得很好， 我们努力满足他的每一个需要。 我从来没有像其他人那样对他的治疗有过隐含的信心， 但我相信他完全满意。 一家人日夜照顾他， 但他们得到了休息和请求。 他的尸体被关押在他心爱的妻子坟墓的北侧。 我现在得了一种老式感冒。 它影响了我的头脑， 所以我不能阅读太多。 我希望几天后我会好起来的。 拉斐特的教会希望我下个安息日能和他们在一起。 他们中间有相当大的复兴。 我认为他们有 15 或 20 次圣餐。 查普曼先生曾在伍斯特长老会担任我们董事会的撰稿人， 他已经在他们中间工作了几个星期， 他的工作似乎得到了祝福， 但他不是按立的牧师， 因此他们希望我来管理对他们来说是主的晚餐， 也许是洗礼的教仪。 我很高兴得知那个教会可能会活下来并兴旺发达。 上周四， 浸信会信徒在这里奉献了他们的新教堂。 除非他们比奉献日更好地温暖它， 否则我担心他们不会有一个非常拥挤的合唱团。 长老会教堂的信徒人数与一年前相同。 卫理公会正在举行一场旷日持久的会议， 我知道现在取得了怎样的成功。 爱德华作为我们安息日学的负责人非常满意。 我认为他会很有用。 我想在这之前你已经完成了与亨利和海蒂分手的考验。 我可怜你。 愿你得到支持。 你慈爱的父亲 V. Noyes Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Varnum to Martha Subject The topic of the resource Death; Burial; Grief; Medical care; Sabbath; Church Description An account of the resource Varnum writes to daughter Martha about the death of her brother Francis, and how Varnum sat with him the night before he passed, holding his hand and reading scripture. Varnum discusses how the family worked hard to take care of Frank and then mentions how he has been called to assist at a church in Lafayette. He gives updates on the other nearby sects and wishes Martha well. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noyes, Varnum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The College of Wooster, Special Collections, <a href="https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/collections/historical/noyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Noyes Collection</a>, Box #5 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Unpublished Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1876-01-17 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng (English) Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context noyes_c_cor_536 baptism brothers Christianity communion death illness