STAMPLESS ALS THOMAS CHADBOURNE TO SISTER MARTHA CA. 182O CONCORD NEW HAMPSHIRE

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[Autograph letter signed, New Hampshire,
Chadbourne family]
“In a former letter I took the liberty to censure as
a fault a habit you have lately acquired of writing
your letters in a style of affectation & bombast that
is as disagreeable as affectation in address [?] or
manners. As I had but little leisure then, I will now
give you a few more instances of pedantry in style
that by seeing the fault in others you will
now more willingly correct it in yourself…”
ALS, Thomas Chadbourne to Martha L Chadbourne. Concord, [New Hampshire], “Thanksgiving Evening” [ca. 1820].  Quarto, single sheet measuring 11.5 inches by 16.5 inches folded to form 4 pages recorded in ink in a difficult hand, signed by Chadbourne. Addressed, with illegible stamped cancel & remnants of wax seal
Condition:
Folded for mailing, splits & losses briefly affecting text, lightly toned & foxed, still Good or better.
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Addressing his younger sister, Martha Lewis Chadbourne of Conway, NH, Thomas Chadbourne writes of Thanksgiving sermons & offers a blistering critique, while providing examples of pedantry in others, of his sister’s prose. In so doing, he references Samuel Johnson & notes that
“the language of the Bible is simple & intensely free from affectation & every attempt to embellish  the sublime…”
Thomas Chadbourne was bom in 1790 at North Conway, New Hampshire. Following his father, a physician, & under his tutelage, he began his medical studies in 1809 which included attending the lectures of the renowned Dr. Alexander Ramsay in Fryeburg, Maine. In 1811, Chadbourne moved to Hanover, New Hampshire where he was the private student of Drs. Smith & Perkins while also attending lectures at the Medical Department of Dartmouth College. In 1813 he was awarded the degree of Medical Doctor in The following year, partially to avoid competition with his father, Chadbourne removed from Conway & established his practice in Concord. He died there in April, 1864.
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