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Hannah and Rural Life:
July 11, 1799 -- In a letter to his sister-in-law Maria Nicholson, Gallatin describes the mismatch between his wife and rural life:
Fayette County, 11th July 1799.
... She is also a mere country wife, sews, string beans, and c (entre nous, but a poor country wife too, inadequate to the duties of her station, knows not how butter should be made, meat salted, vinegar prepared, cannot scold, first in bed at night, and last in the morning, spoils her child, and c) ... my life's principal occupation... is to count the number of weeks and days which are to elapse before our departure... |