Buffalo,
Tuesday, Sept. 3. 1850.My dear friend,
Your very welcome letter was received yesterday. I rejoice in the prospect of soon seeing you. This will be worth many letters, though letters are good in the absence of friends. But now I seem so overjoyed with the hope of seeing your "face in the flesh," that I can hardly write. I was nto aware that you had relatives in this city. I have often seen the name of D. W. Williams, and the number of the street where his office is. As I am very little acquainted in this city, I have never met your Aunt, but presume I might meet her if I went into society at all. My sister has lived here, more or less for several years, - but she has had a family of little children to confine her at home, and much of the time she has spent in New Hampshire, so that she has not very many acquaintances, and those she has, she sees but seldom. I have no friends as yet, except those who were her friends before I came. I go out very little, and do not feel acquainted with Buffalo people.
I hope you will not have few days to spend in this city but many. I would like to claim the few for myself. I think that we, who were for several months associated so intimately at South Hadley, would enjoy a visit of a few days together. We were in the same section, and roomed in adjoining rooms. I think no one has any more cause for intimacy than those who have been thus connected, amid all the sacred influences of Mt. Holyoke Seminary. I love the place, and all whom there I loved. I have never met one of my Holyoke sisters since leaving the place, except Miss Stearns, whose house is near my own, and who, from childhood, has been a very dear friend, and Miss Murchison for a moment. I think I shall be more than glad to see you. I shall not know how to describe my feeling. I do hope I shall not be disappointed. I only wish you could bring Miss Luce, & all our dear Holyoke sisters with you. Then we would have a jubilee. However we will have the two hundredth part of a jubilee in seeing each other.
My brother, Charles C. Bellows, lives at 5 East Huron St. - I am at home, any time, and all the time. I shall indeed be rejoiced, to see you when you come. Yet I am sorry that the ill health of your friends in Ohio should be the cause of your return. -
When I see you, we will say all that we have not written. I am in haste today, and you will excuse me. - If you see any friend of mine, give my love. - I have not recently heard from Miss Stearns, or from Holyoke. A few weeks ago I met Miss Murchison in one of the shops. Of course we could not stop to converse. You probably know that she has been expelled from the Seminary. We said nothing of this. She told me she was to leave the city that day, but was expecting to return soon, when she would call to see me. She has not called, and I do not know whether she has returned. I cannot imagine how she happened to get expelled. I always thought her a very steady girl.
I have all this summer been thinking of going to Cleveland but have not yet started. I may go this fall. I have always thought I should like to see a little of Ohio's soil, and certainly some Ohio friends are very dear to me. Hoping to see you soon, I will bid you good bye.
Very affectionately yours,
Sarrah E. Farrar