{"id":9492,"date":"2018-05-11T08:30:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T08:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/?p=9492"},"modified":"2018-05-11T08:30:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T08:30:46","slug":"letter-wedding-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2018\/05\/11\/letter-wedding-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from a mother to her daughter on the day of her wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9528\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/IMG_8554.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9528 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/IMG_8554-1024x932.jpg\" alt=\"Note from Hannah Thomas Brewster Adams to Hannah Thomas Adams, likely January 1, 1857\" width=\"604\" height=\"550\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Note from Hannah Thomas Brewster Adams to Hannah Thomas Adams, likely January 1, 1857<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On January 1, 1857, Hannah Thomas Adams married Azel Washburn, a 27-year-old fisherman. Her mother, Hannah Thomas Brewster Adams, wrote her a note which reads:<\/p>\n<p><em>To Hannah on the day of her marriage<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dear and only daughter in part Farewell! Ever since your birth you have been with me and an object of my greatest care and attention, Now we part! One roof no longer shelters us, our homes are not the same\u2014You go to a new sphere of action new cares, connections and dutys [sic] attend you without doubt new anxieties and troubles\u2014May you conduct with prudence and discretion performing every part conscientiously as far as in your power\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We are left alone, as when we commenced life together\u2014But not the same as the hoary? head, the dim eye, and feeble step plainly tell. May we each and all live peacably [sic], be provided for comfortably, perform each and every duty faithfully, and at last receive the welcome reward of faithful servants of our Lord<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>From your Mother<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Letter from the Helen Adams Collection MC23.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On January 1, 1857, Hannah Thomas Adams married Azel Washburn, a 27-year-old fisherman. Her mother, Hannah Thomas Brewster Adams, wrote her a note which reads: To Hannah on the day of her marriage Dear and only daughter in part Farewell! Ever since your birth you have been with me and an object of my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2018\/05\/11\/letter-wedding-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Letter from a mother to her daughter on the day of her wedding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,292],"tags":[296],"class_list":["post-9492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lhc","category-pique-of-the-week","tag-people"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}