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Icy
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Manuscripts
Collection MSS 58, I, 1, 9, #6
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Item/Collection
Note: Elizabeth Cox Underwood explains in her December 17,
1851, letter to husband Joseph Rogers Underwood, the grip
that the extremely cold weather has on her, and the Bowling
Green, Kentucky area.
"Behold me sitting as close as I can get into the fire,
this freezing weather, with a shawl around me and my face
tied up, on account of its being swelled from having taken
cold. In this physical plight, my heart yearns towards you
for a little sympathy, and as the only means of communion,
I have taken pen in hand to beguile the time. It is the most
severe weather known here for years. The river is frozen from
shore to shore, and all the wagons are running to and from
the various icehouses in Town, with beautiful, clear ice,
several inches thick." |
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