Alphabet/Verse Sampler

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Descriptive Terms

samplers (embroidery)
needlework (visual works)
crewel wool
cross-stitching
embroidering
wool (textile)
Sampler

Inscription

""Seize The King Promise while he waits/Ana March to Zion's Heavenly Gates/Believe And Take the Promis'd Poest(?)/Obey And Be Forever Blest"" ""Hannah Norton/Beauty Fame And Empires Fall/But Virtue Triumphs Over All"" ""Cambridge/1795/H.N."" (Embroidered)
"Csambridge April 15, 1798/ Sir - you have not sent me the wood/ nor potatoes according to your agreement/ for, I have not heard form you since/ ly's departure from our house./ I am in good health and hope you and your/ ly are so also./ rly love to Dolly and should be very/ to see her./ Elisabeth Norton" (Three separate pieces of writing paper are stitched together with silk thread, and they appear to have been stitched to the sampler.)
"Dear friend/ It is with the utmost delight/ that I take my pen in hand to inform you of my health which/ good at present and hope you enjoy the same blessing./ Although it is not long since I have seen you it seems an age:/ or consider what happiness we used to take walking down to/ Lake supe_ the isthmus @ Darien and a great many other/ places! But at last __ one never to return. I never expect to/ spend much more time in ___. Now I must stay at home to/ work but I have conversed enough ___ subject. I have - got - to - / stop - hem - hem/ I shall expect to see you up to our house soon whether/ Thomas ___ company or not. It is quite inconvenient for me/ you know." (handwritten)

Associated Building

Associated With Cooper-Frost-Austin House (Cambridge, Mass.),

Maker

Norton, Hannah (Embroiderer)

Dimensions

16 x 13 1/2 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Eleanor Clarke Bowser

Accession Number

1982.239