January 25, 2024
1842 BROOKLINE MASS LETTER TO WATERBORO ME - GREAT RELIGIOUS CONTENT & MORE !
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Lengthy, 2 pgs. letter, approx. 7-3/4" x 9-3/4", dated at Brookline, Mass., June 6, 1842, from B.F. Baker, to Lovina Libbey, at Waterboro, Maine. Stampless folded letter has red "BROOKLINE/MASS." cds and manuscript "Paid 12-1/2". The writer of this letter, Benjamin Franklin Baker , (1820-1898), was born in Kennebunk, Maine, and moved to Brookline, Mass. in 1842. He represented Brookline in the State Legislature, and was elected Town Clerk in 1852, serving until his death in 1898. Great content , in which Baker writes to his future wife. Written not long after arriving in Brookline, he writes that his present employer is not paying him enough. The letter has wonderful religious content, in which Benjamin expresses deep religious feeling. Includes: "Lovina, from your request & my own inclinations, I now address to you a few lines. I have received both of your letters...I was glad to hear such goodness in regard to the folks....I have thought much about you since last I saw you, and as to when we shall meet again, the Lord alone knows, & what may take place between now & then, the dark & uncertain future alone can reach. Oh that we might so live that we should have no dread of the future & so conduct ourselves that there would be nothing to apprehend from that quarter. It is too true that the sorrows & disappointments of men are
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