Benjamin Penhollow Shillaber, Chelsea, to "My dear old friend" [Mr. Haskell, New Hampshire], 1883

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[sends a belated thanks for his letter of sympathy upon the death of Mrs. Shillaber, "I could not do it at the time without reopening the wound that I was striving to heal, though this has been hopeless. Early in May I closed my house, and Carrie and I went wandering -she one way and I another -to try the benefit of change. I vibrated between New Yorkand Old York, up the Piscataquaand down to the beaches, seeking rest but finding it only measurably." They returned in October and secured the services of the widow of the artist, George Curtis, as housekeeper. He also comments upon Haskell's poem, his own theological doubts, and news of Chelsea, as Mr. Haskell was a former neighbor]

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Benjamin Penhollow Shillaber
George Curtis

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