Henry and Mary Warner lived in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, now part of Pittsburgh. They are the great-grandparents of poet Marianne Moore. By the 1860s they had three surviving children: John, Henry, and Anne. Their letters to John, a Presbyterian minister living in Gettysburg, are preserved as part of Marianne Moore’s family papers.
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Allegheny City Wednesday December 11th 1861—3 ½ P.M. Back kitchen
Our Dear Children
We are all in excellent health & spirits—Mother was away helping Anne to fix her carpet yesterday—I am very busy doing some fixing to the old books of Groff Lindsay & Co—I am doing it at home—I write this is haste—have no news—every thing is just as it was when you were here—Mother says, she thinks you ought to let us know how you got over your cold or have you got over it yet
Hope Jennie & you are in good health & that you use my country woman Mary well—
Your affectionate father & mother
Henry & Mary Warner
Citation: Henry and Mary Warner, autograph letter signed to John Riddle Warner. Allegheny City [Pittsburgh], 11 December 1861. Moore VI:04:25