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Almanzo write his parents about proposing to Laura
Letter Home
October 2nd 1884
Dearest mother!
I am engaged!
I have asked Laura to be my wife and she has accepted. You will soon have a new daughter-in-law. I feel like the luckiest man on the earth right now. I have been thinking about it for a while now, and I was in Bradleys drug store and rings caught my attention. It's a pretty ring, an oval set with a garnet and a pearl on each side.
We were on our way back from singing school. She just finished singing a song, she does have a lovely voice. I took her hand, which is so small and white compared to my own. I lost my words and told her what I thought off her hand. Finally I asked Laura, if she would like an engagement ring. After clarifying that, it would be I that would give it her. She said it would then depend on the ring.
Mother I think you understand Laura's character well enough, that it was a mixed of shyness and teasing possibly. I picked her up the next Sunday, a little late trying to appear calm and collect when my hands wouldn't stop sweating.
We drove out to the lake, and picked grapes, talking like nothing happened other then the usual the day before, it was twilight when I finally took the ring and slipped it on her finger.
I explain the set to her as she looked at it in the moonlight. Her face flushing, as she answered a shy. "I think I would like to have it." I wanted the heavens to open as my heart soared. So I told her, leave it on and next summer I will build us a little house. She said she liked little houses.
something Almanzo scratched out
We won't be married till next year when she turns eighteen, a request from her father which I agreed to, since I have to build our house anyway.
Laura hope to continue school for now, and try to get a teaching post in town in the spring she hopes.
I hope you and father are doing well. Give everyone my best.
Love Almanzo
Hoped you liked it. Jkaplis, aswell as everyone else.
Love you all.
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