I would tell you how, in their youthful days, they took each other as companions for life, and how this union, no less sacred to them than the tie of marriage, has subsisted, in uninterrupted harmony, for more than forty years.'" 'If I were permitted to draw the veil of private life, I would briefly give you the singular, and to me interesting, story of two maiden ladies who dwell in this valley. He came to Weybridge to stay with the pair in the July 1843 and described their relationship in terms that would have been perfectly at home in the recent discussions about gay marriage: Yet the key to our understanding comes from a startlingly frank account of them written by Charity’s nephew, William Cullen Bryant, one of 19th Century America’s best-known writers and editors. Diaries, letters and business papers in the Sheldon Museum Research Center provide a clear window into their lives together. "The relationship between Charity Bryant (1777–1851) and Sylvia Drake (1784–1868) is unusual in that it is so clearly documented. Sylvia met her life partner, Charity Bryant in 1806. She is the daughter of Thomas Drake and Mary Manley.
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