"Holograph, signed. Elizabeth Bates Chapman [Laugel] writes to Deborah Weston that \"I have been so very good that I hardly know whether I have had a good time or not ...\" She gives a detailed chronological account of her visit with her grandparents. She thanks Deborah for a book. Elizabeth said: \"We have a great dearth of books here and for my part I don't see how they live here. I am almost dead for want of a book.\""
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"Letter from Elizabeth Bates Chapman Laugel, [West Newton, Mass.], to Deborah Weston, August 15, 1844"
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creators
"Laugel, Elizabeth Bates Chapman, b. 1831 (Author); Weston, Deborah, b. 1814 (Addressee)"
