Hannah Rodman Fisher letter to Charity Rotch, [1818/1819]

The last of a series of 44 letters from Hannah Rodman Fisher in Philadelphia to her sister, Charity Rotch in Ohio. The date of the letter is unclear. The Rotches made one return visit to New England via Philadelphia in 1820 or 1821; Hannah writes that she suspects Charity with Thomas Rotch may already have departed Ohio for Philadelphia, hence the approximate date of this letter. Ethel Conrad verifies in her book, "Invaluable Friends: Thomas and Charity Rotch"(1991)[p.58]that Charity was depressed when she learned in 1819 that Hannah whom she had not seen for eight years had died. Hannah writes that the very "warm weather has so debilitated my energy at times that I have hardly been adequate to the oversight of my family concerns and writing even to my much loved sister hath seem'd a task." 7.95" x 9.8" (20.2 by 25 cm