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Cook, Gustave, 1835-1897 to Eliza Cook

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02570.60 Author/Creator: Cook, Gustave, 1835-1897 Place Written: Chattahoochie, River. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 15 July 1864 Pagination: 8 p. : Order a Copy

Writes about his and Eliza's wedding day, 11years ago. Reminds her of God's blessings regardless of all the illness and death that has been bestowed upon them. Wishes he had kept and journal and "let our children see the joys and sorrows, hopes and fears, disappointments and successes through which we have passed."
Apologizes for his indiscretions and selfishness throughout the years. He writes, "I have so often annoyed you by attentions to others which though harmless in themselves I should have known were troublesome to you. I have often thought to give you a full true account of all these affairs but fearful to commit them to paper." Cook writes that he could never learn to love anyone else. He writes, "…I have amused myself with others but you have ever been the being upon whom my hearts most devoted affections have been and now are lavished."

Cooke, Gustave, fl. 1861-1865

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