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Article: The Founders: An All-Male Club Series: THE SUMMER OF '87
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- The Washington Post
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- July 13, 1987
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A letter from Oliver Ellsworth, left, delegate to the
Constitutional Convention from Connecticut, to his wife, July 21,
1787:
Dear Mrs. Ellsworth,
I believe the older men grow the more uneasy they are from their
wives. Mr. Sherman {Roger Sherman of Connecticut} and Doctor Johnson
{William Samuel Johnson of Connecticut} are both run home for a short
family visit. As I am a third younger than they are I calculate to
hold out a third longer, which will carry me to about the last of
August.
My health holds better than I feared. To preserve {it} I walk a
good deal in the cool of the afternoons. I frequently stop in and
take a little chat and tea sipping with good Connecticut women who
are ...