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| Man |
 John Maurice Huiskamp
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|---|---|---|
| Woman |
 Maria P. Werth
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| Date | 03 SEP 1855 | |
| Place | St. Louis, Missouri | |
| Country | United States of America | |
| Cause | First Love Letter due to Maria's return to Seminary school |
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Dear Maria,
It may seem strange to you very strange and perhaps too presumptuous on my part to dare to address you as above.
As you are however "dear," yes very dear to me, I hope that you will take my sincerity as my excuse. I have longed and wished to find a good being to whom I could offer my sincere affection and have found no one until i saw you. Although my heart has beaten for you already a long while, and your image has been my delight during many an hour spent in happy solitude, I have till this moment, looked for an opportunity to declare myself to you, in vain.
You are about to leave, and it is impossible for me to remain silent any longer. I have taken the pen, as the only means to acquaint you with the feelings of my heart.
... for as flowers drawn with pen and ink are but miserable copies of the reality, so would any attempt in me to describe what I feel be far from giving my real emotions.
It may however be that someone, far more worthy of your affection, has already gained that love, which alone can make me happy, and that mine must be forever in vain.
If so, please do not hesitate to inform me; for although my love would not be responded to, and my heart broken, I would ask your sympathy, which you will not withhold from one, whose only crime is sincere and boundless affection. To me it would be as the consolation of a beloved sister.
But I am not entirely without that hope, which I have so fondly cherished since I learned to value you. --I will await your answer therefore with patience, and whatever that may be I humbly wish you to remember that the issue, which I am awaiting with such deep solicitude, will mark an "Era" in my life.
If favourable my joy will be unspeakable, if not so, I will need strength from Him, who has already been my Father during many an hour of trial. Please excuse the length of this letter, and as all my hopes are centered in your answer, you will relieve my anxiety with a speedy reply, while I have the pleasure to remain.
Yours truly,
J.M.H.
P.S. Please address J.M.H., Care of Mess. Pittman & Rog.
It may seem strange to you very strange and perhaps too presumptuous on my part to dare to address you as above.
As you are however "dear," yes very dear to me, I hope that you will take my sincerity as my excuse. I have longed and wished to find a good being to whom I could offer my sincere affection and have found no one until i saw you. Although my heart has beaten for you already a long while, and your image has been my delight during many an hour spent in happy solitude, I have till this moment, looked for an opportunity to declare myself to you, in vain.
You are about to leave, and it is impossible for me to remain silent any longer. I have taken the pen, as the only means to acquaint you with the feelings of my heart.
... for as flowers drawn with pen and ink are but miserable copies of the reality, so would any attempt in me to describe what I feel be far from giving my real emotions.
It may however be that someone, far more worthy of your affection, has already gained that love, which alone can make me happy, and that mine must be forever in vain.
If so, please do not hesitate to inform me; for although my love would not be responded to, and my heart broken, I would ask your sympathy, which you will not withhold from one, whose only crime is sincere and boundless affection. To me it would be as the consolation of a beloved sister.
But I am not entirely without that hope, which I have so fondly cherished since I learned to value you. --I will await your answer therefore with patience, and whatever that may be I humbly wish you to remember that the issue, which I am awaiting with such deep solicitude, will mark an "Era" in my life.
If favourable my joy will be unspeakable, if not so, I will need strength from Him, who has already been my Father during many an hour of trial. Please excuse the length of this letter, and as all my hopes are centered in your answer, you will relieve my anxiety with a speedy reply, while I have the pleasure to remain.
Yours truly,
J.M.H.
P.S. Please address J.M.H., Care of Mess. Pittman & Rog.