Elizabeth Cushier to Emily Blackwell, Sept 14th (p4, p1)

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Elizabeth Cushier to Emily Blackwell, Sept 14th (p4, p1)

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depressed, + less restless, +
her face is much more natural.
The family are in excellent
spirits over her improvement
but I should not be sur
-prised at any [----] [-] have
another outburst. She has
been so bad as to curse + [-----]
+ say she must do it, + that
it is because she is so sickly
that she does do it. Then she
would clasp her hands +
hold them against her breast
with her eyes fixed + would
not answer nor wish to be
spoken too again she would
remain for a long time with
her chin upon her [----] praying
+ would take no notice of anything. / (end p.4)

[Sideways]: I am writing this [-----] [-----] from [------]. Please remember me kindly to your brother Mrs Lane + Alice + believe me as ever dear dear doctor with love from EMC

Sept. 14th

The last days have
been busy ones dearest
Mrs. [Gxxx] was confined
on Thursday, which
means now daily trips to
Harlem, + I also see [E----]
[G-----] every day, beside the
other odds + ends. There is
not at present much [------]
[pl—ti-], indeed very little,
but I have been out of
town to see a patient + have
also seen for [you] Mrs. [Mill----] / (end p.1)

Bibliographic Citation

Blackwell family. Papers of the Blackwell family, 1831-1981, Folder 187. To Emily. n.d.; includes letters from Emily Blackwell's companion, Dr. Elizabeth Cushier, from Mary Putman Jacobi, Marie Blackwell Droussart, and E.S. Minturn re: Harvard Annex entrance examinations., http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/47593387 seq. 57

http://schlesinger.radcliffe.harvard.edu/onlinecollections/blackwell/item/47593387/57