September 17, 1862: Henry and Mary Warner to John Warner

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.

  Transcript:

Allegheny City Wednesday September 17^th 1862—3 ½ P.M.

Our Dear Children—Your welcome letter came duly to hand informing us of your expected visit to Philada, we expected a missive from there, if we knew exactly that you would be there & see Henry we would like you to take him a towel, says he would like to have one, he also writes of a book called “Hardees Military Tacticts’ he might probably purchase that book himself, so that I could not advise you to take him one—I think if you have not seen him it would be well for you to write to him & ask him if there was any thing he wanted that you could bring him—We are all in excellent health have no news only the boys are going from this in crowds to guard the state from rebel invasion, they go first to Harrisburgh and from that to any where along the border they may be ordered—we have no news of interest to communicate—Hope Jennie & yourself and your little treasure Mary are all in good health & spirits

Your affectionate father & mother

Henry & Mary Warner

Citation: Henry and Mary Warner, autograph letter signed to John Riddle Warner. Allegheny City [Pittsburgh], 17 September 1862. Moore VI:05:10