https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/everettfamilytree/elizabeth-blake-everett-1803/upstairs-downstairs-class-distinctions-in-the-south-end/https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/march-7-1855.jpgMarch 7, 1855March 7, 1855: "I am worried half to death by my servants, about a month ago I lost a diamond ring, add last night I missed 13 rupees from my desk at the house and sent my bearer to jail this morning. These natives I believe are the greatest rascals in the world. My young lady friends advise me to get married so to have someone to look after the house and keep the servants straight while we are at the office."https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/feb-2-1855.jpgFeb 2 1855February 2, 1855: "...I am tired & worried half to death by these beastly servants and have a great mind to do all my work myself. One of them stole my diamond ring, which D.M. & Co. gave me worth some Rs 330 [300 rupees] - I gave him a good thrashing but as I could prove nothing against him had to let him go, I wish I could get some servants out from home."https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/july-12-_02.jpgJuly 12 _02"...and was rather noisy. I got a little excited and gave him another thrashing and turned him off, and then gave the derwan [government official who negotiated trade with the East India Company] a thrashing for not putting him out of the yard. This is all the trouble of any amount I have had. These natives are perfect beasts, and I hate the sight of them." Image courtesy of the South End Historical Society.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/july-12-1854.jpgJuly 12 1854July 12, 1854: "I still like housekeeping although we have some trouble with the servants. Last Sunday, my boy told me that my horse had not been groomed, I went out and found my Lyce [groom] drunk, he was rather saucy, so I have him a good thrashing and put him out of the yard, he came back soon after..." Image courtesy of the South End Historical Society.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/may_01.jpgMay_01May 1855: "Dear Otis, Your pleasant letter has safely arrived and has been read and read, and read, and read; as usual. You seem to have so much bother with your servants, that I shall have to send you out a few Irish. There are several of the South May St. gentry, whose valuable services could be spared from a city so rich in Hibernian resources as Boston is, and if they did not assimilate readily with your Hindoo appendages, either to mind or make mince why, you could turn them into missionaries." Image courtesy of the South End Historical Society.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/may-29_2.jpgMay 29_2"...about his right to annoy them so. He says that he has a good a right to an honest living as they have, and if he can gain it in this way they cannot blame him that he has no wish to molest them, but has openly and honestly hired the building and no one can blame him for making the most of it." Image courtesy of the South End Historical Society.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/may-29_1.jpgMay 29_1May 29, 1855: "The neighbors on Franklin Square are all in an uproar because Warren, the policeman, has hired Chickering's large building on the side next the burying ground and intends fitting it up to let out to Irish. Some of the folks have adverstised their houses to sell and some of them are in sharp controversy with Warren..." Image courtesy of South End Historical Society.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/sept-30_2.jpgSept 30_2"...and buckets that save you the trouble of putting on a cover. Zip [the family dog] gave her a 10 dollar gold piece, and Mary Louisa gave her half a dozen silver spoons. So I expect she will take quite an aristocratic stance on Meander St." Image courtesy of the South End Historical Society.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/sept-30_1.jpgSept 30_1"Esther has gone to housekeeping on Meander Street, near Dedham St. and we have furnished her room splendidly from our clothes room with fancy chairs and venerable washstands..." Image courtesy of the South End Historical Society.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/1855_august_2.jpg1855_August_2"...into the state matrimonial but se said she thought she had worked out long enough and had better be married to somebody; that she had offers from three "fellars" the 4th of July, and as this one seemed to be strong and healthy, she took him that she guessed he was clever. I told her she was foolish not to wait until I got home as I should have given her her cake, but she said that Father Lynch was going away and her "fellar" said they would be married then, and put off the wedding until I got home. She has promised to stay until I return, when I shall have the felicity of inducting her successor into office."2018-09-03T18:25:18+00:00weekly0.6https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/everettfamilytree/https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/final-everett-family-tree.jpegfinal-everett-family-treehttps://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/1852-norman-b-leventhal2.jpg1852-norman-b-leventhal2018-09-03T18:20:17+00:00weekly0.6https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/everettfamilytree/otis-blake-everett-1831-1859/life-in-india/https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/march-20-1856.jpgMarch 20 1856March 20, 1856: "Today is a native holiday and the natives are amusing themselves by throwing a red powder and dirty water on each other and making a horrid noise with tom-toms, fiddles, gongs, and singing. Really this is a strange country!"https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/june-6-1854.jpgJune 6 1854June 6, 1854: Today is a native holiday, so it is very quiet at the office, but very noisy in the streets. It is the most celebrated day of the Hindoos, being Juggernaut, which you have often heard of. The streets are crowded with processions, bands of music, and the different idols. Today they drag the idol Juggernaut on an immense carriage down to the river, where they bathe him, amidst an awful noise of gongs, drums, & trumpets. The idol is then supposed to have a head-ache and is carried back to the temple, where he will remain fifteen days, when there will be another ceremony to perform. These sights are very amusing to a stranger, but after one has seen them several times they are very disgusting."https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/january-21-1855.jpgJanuary 21 1855January 21, 1855: "Calcutta is quite lively just now. We have Kate Hayes and a troop of Italians here giving concerts. I have not been as yet, as the tickets are too high for me, twenty rupees being the price of a single ticket." Image courtesy of the South End Historical Society.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/nov-6-1854_02.jpgNov 6 1854_02"...I presume you can hardly imagine my being quite a beaux among the ladies, but it is about all the amusement a poor fellow can have in this place. Next week we are going to get up a garden party and have a dance and tiffin in the Company’s gardens." Image courtesy of the South End Historical Society.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/nov-6-1854_01.jpgNov 6 1854_01November 6, 1854: "I have made lots of acquaintances among the ladies in our neighborhood, and they keep me going to parties and dinners about twice a week. Some of them have been teasing me lately about a very pretty young lady and say my attentions are very marked, but I shall take good care not to get caught." Image courtesy of the South End Historical Societyhttps://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/august-16-1854.jpgAugust 16 1854August 16, 1854: "There was a large nautch [entertainment mainly consisting of dancing by professional dancing girls called nautch girls.] given here a few days ago by Aushootos Day. Nearly all the Americans were there. It did not amount to much, in fact. After you have seen one nautch there is not much interest in another. I went to a sort of a picnic to a large garden, called the Seven Tanks, a few days ago, and had a very good time. Once in a while I find some amusement between the showers, but it is very dull here at this season of the year.2018-09-03T18:13:18+00:00weekly0.6https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/everettfamilytree/otis-everett-1803-1886/south-end-development-neighborhood-changes-around-the-everetts/https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/1855-08-05.jpg1855-08-05"Calcutta, 6th August 1855 My dear Father, Your letter of 29th May, also mother’s, was duly received. I notice what you say about the new improvements and nuisances on the Neck. The place must be quite an aristocratic looking place." Image Courtesy of the South End Historical Society.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/1855-05-29.jpg1855-05-2929 May 1855: "Many new houses are going up at the South End, and our location will be quite central when you return." Image Courtesy of the South End Historical Society.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/1851-09-23.jpg1851-09-2323 September 1851: “The street has been paved from Dover to Brookline streets, and Union Park is having an iron fence erected round it, and preparations for a fountain, so we shall look in nice order when you return.” Image Courtesy of the South End Historical Societyhttps://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/1854-08-02.jpg1854-08-02I suppose you will hardly realize the fact, if I write it ever so plain, that Tom intends to be married this fall. He found it impossible to obtain a house in this neighborhood, that came within his means, that he would live in, and he preferred going to Roxbury to living in any but the South End part of Boston. Father heard of a nice little house in St. James Street, nearly opposite Uncle John’s, which was for sale, but not to let, and, as he was thinking of changing some of his investments, he purchased it for five thousand dollars and lets it to Tom, thus giving father a safe and sure percentage and Tom a moderate rent. 2018-09-03T18:12:08+00:00weekly0.6https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/everettfamilytree/otis-everett-1803-1886/https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/beware-of-the-thorns.jpgBeware of the ThornsImage from July 1859 Godey's Lady's Book demonstrates proper courting behavior for young men and women.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/when-first-i-gazed.jpgWhen First I GazedPoem from February 1859 Godey's Lady's Book emphasizing romantic love.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unspecified-23.jpgunspecified-2https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unspecified-16.jpgunspecified-1https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unspecified-15.jpgunspecified-1https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unspecified-14.jpgunspecified-12018-04-09T00:07:11+00:00weekly0.6https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/everettfamilytree/percival-lowell-everett/https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/nov-03-1853-page-004.jpgnov-03-1853-page-004https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unspecified-21.jpgunspecified-2https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unspecified-31.jpgunspecified-3https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unspecified-12.jpgunspecified-12018-04-08T16:00:25+00:00weekly0.6https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/everettfamilytree/louisa-everett/https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/closeup.jpgcloseuphttps://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unspecified-1.jpgunspecified-1https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/dsc01964.jpgdsc01964Louisa's tomb. Image courtesy of Corinne Bermon.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/dsc01962.jpgdsc01962Louisa's tomb. Image courtesy of Corinne Bermon.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/dsc01956.jpgdsc01956Louisa's tomb. Image courtesy of Corinne Bermon.2018-04-08T15:51:31+00:00weekly0.6https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/everettfamilytree/thomas-everett/https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/nov-21-1853.jpgNov 21 1853November 21, 1853: "For the past week I have been nearly all the time with Aunt Mary Curtis. She died yesterday morning. I was with her at the time. Her sickness has been short for consumption, and apparently suffered but little, though she was so happy and uncomplaining that she made light of pain, which another would have made much of. She is a great loss to the family, but she talked so cheerfully to them all about parting with them that she made the thought so familiar to them that they were in some measure prepared." Image courtesy of the South End Historical Society.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/sept-23-1851.jpgSept 23, 1851September 23, 1851: "Aunt Mary Curtis has been very sick, bleeding at the lungs, and we are still anxious for her lest she should have a return of the complaint, but she is now out of immediate danger and we hope will entirely recover. Anna Adams has had a similar attack and for many days was given over by the physicians, but they now feel encouraged again, and if she does not go into a rapid consumption they think she may get well." Image courtesy of the South End Historical Society. https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/nov-14-1854.jpgNov 14 1854November 14, 1854: "Tom and Sarah returned from their journey last week and we were all out to the house to welcome them, about 30 of us, uncles, aunts, and cousins, among them Uncle Williams. We had tea all ready for them and had quite a merry time. Last week Mr. Lyman sent Tom an elegant silver pitcher marked “TBE from GTL.” Frank Hodgkinson goes in often to see them and seems to feel as much interest in their housekeeping as they do themselves."https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/august-18-1854.jpgAugust 18 1854August 18, 1854: "Dear Otis, I need not tell you how much delighted we were to receive your letter of 12th June, speaking of Thomas’s engagement. I knew it would please you, and as you know more and more of Sarah as a sister, why you will like her better and better. She is so easy and home-like that I expect we shall soon forget that she was not born one of our family. The preparations are going on for the wedding, and the house is being made ready. This week they are putting in the gas fixtures, tho’ the gas is not quite ready for distribution in Roxbury, but father thought it best to be already for it before they moved in, and they will probably be supplied with it in the course of the winter." Image courtesy of the South End Historical Society.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/oct-1-1854_2.jpgOct 1 1854_2"...and have selected the prettiest, the cheapest, the most convenient, and the most suitable articles which they contained to furnish the St. James Street house, and when you see it I think you will say so. And what is best of all, the sum total will be less than the appropriation. Don’t you call that good management? The house has two parlours, a library and a dining room on the first floor. On the second, three large and two small chambers, two good attics, and on the ground floor a kitchen, large pantry, and a first rate cellar. The ground slopes so much from the front that the kitchen is even with the garden back of the house. The prospect from all the back windows is beautiful. It is a small, modest, unpretending, but genteel looking establishment, but quite large enough for new beginners." Image courtesy of the South End Historical Society.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/oct-1-1854_1.jpgOct 1 1854_1October 1, 1854: "Tom’s affairs progress finely. Mrs. G., Sarah Lizzie, and myself have spent all this week in furniture ware-rooms,..." Image courtesy of South End Historical Society.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/march-30-1854-_2.jpgMarch 30 1854 _2"...that you have guessed right. It is your brother Tom to Sarah Greene. Now clap your hands and hurra that you are to have a sister, and I a daughter. Tom could not have chosen one that father and I should have liked better, for we know her so perfectly and know that she will make him just as good a wife in adversity as prosperity. She is well educated, accomplished, and a good housekeeper, and always good-natured and happy. Most of the young ladies of the present day have too much of the butterfly about them, but Sarah has the solid as well as the showy points, and is one that will wear well." Image courtesy of the South End Historical Society.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/march-30-1854_1.jpgMarch 30 1854_1March 30, 1854: "Now for a new engagement!!! Guess who it is; don’t turn over the paper to see the name, until you are satisfied..." Image courtesy of the South End Historical Society.https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unspecified-2.jpgunspecified-2https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/census-1880.jpgcensus-18802018-04-08T15:46:33+00:00weekly0.6https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/everettfamilytree/otis-blake-everett-1831-1859/https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/18june1854.jpg18JUNE1854Letter to Otis Blake from his mother: "I hope you will prove and expert and economical housekeeper, and then when you come home and get married, if you should chance to get one of Dickens' Doras you will know how to manage her."https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/12june1854.jpg12JUNE1854"Oh dear!! I wish I was married. It makes me feel quite old to have Tom engaged. I have about come to the conclusion that if I can find one to suit me, and see my way clear to support a wife, to get married the next time I go home. The ladies in this country are too lazy to suit me. I have..."https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/12june1854_2.jpg12JUNE1854_2"...not made but very few acquaintances among the ladies since I have been here. I called on one of our neighours the other evening. He has a very handsome daughter, a little tinged, being country born, and she will be worth about a hundred thousand rupees, but it is no inducement for me. I love very well to hear her play & sing, and call on her on that account."https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/june-12-1854-page-003.jpgjune-12-1854-page-003https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unspecified-22.jpgunspecified-2https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unspecified-13.jpgunspecified-1Otis Blake's passport for travel to India2018-04-08T15:44:36+00:00weekly0.6https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/everettfamilytree/elizabeth-blake-everett-1803/the-anthony-burns-case-of-1865/2018-04-08T15:41:53+00:00weekly0.6https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/everettfamilytree/elizabeth-blake-everett-1803/https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unspecified-19.jpgunspecified-1https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unspecified-11.jpgunspecified-1https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unspecified1.jpgunspecified2018-04-08T15:21:01+00:00weekly0.6https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/everettfamilytree/louisa-everett/victorian-death-and-illness-2/2018-04-08T15:10:58+00:00weekly0.6https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/everettfamilytree/otis-blake-everett-1831-1859/death-abroad-cholera-among-merchants/https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/march-20-1856-_1-3451171404-1500746837371.jpgMarch 20 1856 _1"We have had very disagreeable weather for the last ten days. It has been very warm and cloudy, with some rain. There have been many cases of cholera among the natives, and several among the Europeans. Capt. Dale’s first officer, a very fine young man, died after a sickness of about ten hours. I attended his funeral and helped Capt. D. make the arrangements."https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/march-20-1856-_2.jpgMarch 20 1856 _2"...cases of cholera among the natives, and several among the Europeans. Capt. Dale’s first officer, a very fine young man, died after a sickness of about ten hours. I attended his funeral and helped Capt. D. make the arrangements."https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/june-18-1854.jpgJune 18 1854"The cholera has made its appearance in Boston, but as yet is confined to the lowest and dirtiest. Active means have been taken to prevent its spreading, and we have not much fear of their success."https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/march-15-1854.jpgMarch 15 1854"Calcutta, March 15, 1854 Dear Father, I wrote you a few lines from here by last mail. I have been very busy since then and have hardly had time to call round on my old acquaintances here. Calcutta has not changed much. It is the same hot, dirty place. All the Americans are living out of town and have offices in town. The weather is fearfully hot, and it is very sickly. Many Europeans are dying amongst the shipping, of cholera. The natives are dying by scores. I have enjoyed perfect health since I have been here, and am very careful about my diet, &c., in order to keep it..." 2018-04-08T15:05:11+00:00weekly0.6https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/bibliography/2018-04-08T14:48:53+00:00weekly0.6https://theeverettfamilyletters.com/about/2017-03-08T22:29:06+00:00weekly0.6https://theeverettfamilyletters.comdaily1.02018-09-03T18:25:18+00:00