Deerfield Monday Night
Nov 22/60
My dear love Aggie
I have just gotten
your good little letter & it is just what
I hoped for but dared not expect.
I am sorry you did not get mine
& Franks written on Sunday & which
you should have had on Tuesday
but it seems Joseph forgot to mail
it & brot it home in his pocket
the next day. I thank you for your
brother Frank’s letter. I like him
in his kind & graphic letters to
his mother & sisters & I am sure he
will succeed in whatever profession
he sticks to. If I do not return
his letter enclosed I will keep it
safely for you. Do you know what
you impose upon me in the way
of duty in making calls! I promise
you to try & do my best & will
do some of them at all events.

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Within one year of this letter, George Fuller (1822-1884) and Agnes Higginson would be husband and wife. At this point, she is living in Boston and he in Deerfield where he has returned to run the family farm. In addition to family matters of social life and health, he speaks of his farm and its produce of cranberries, English grains, broom corn, Indian corn, hay, and tobacco. The broom corn and the cranberries were new crops in the 19th century in the Connecticut River Valley.

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