Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER HF 3011D
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE January 16th 1805
AUTHOR Alice Ann Hoffman, (Mrs. Anne H Nicholas)
RECIPIENT Judge Josiah Ogden Hoffman (New York)
MEDIUM Paper, ink
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Philadelphia, Jany 16th 1805/
Mad. Grelaud’s-
My dear Papa,
I have felt quite uneasy at not receiving / a letter from home for these some days - I hope none of you / are sick, I suppose however you are so occupied with / business that you have hardly time to write to any / one - I wrote you a long letter last week, & no doubt / astonished you with having been out so often - But / now my dear Papa, I can tell you that I have / [inserted: not] been out of the door for the last week - This short letter with such an information in it, will / no donut please you more, than a long one con- / -taining a description of the parties I have been / at - Do not be alarmed at the word parties, for / I assure you I have not even yet drank tea any / where’s but in the family or ar Mrs Merediths’s / Matilda reviewed a letter from Mamma a few /
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days ago - & was delighted with it - she says in it she / will write to me I wish she would, for her & your / letters are my only consolation (as no one else will / write me) If you knew how happy I feel when / I receive a letter from you, I am sure you would / write often - Every evening I set in the the room with / a parcel of little gives, thinking of home, every / night I dream of home, & every day I wish / I were home but to kiss you all & return [written above: to my studies] / Four months & then I shall once more embrace you / a tedious four months indeed they will be, but / I will be perfect mistress of french– You wish / to know concerning my flannel, My Becky had / made me some waistcoats which I wear next / me & they keep my chest entirely guarded / from cold - My best love to Mary & Bessy & Do have pity on me & write to me, I / have no time to write but of an evening /
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& then I am put in a dark part of the room - / “I think any one that really loved me, after lea- / -ving me at boarding school among strangers, & so / far from home, in a situation that cannot be / otherwise than [unrecovered], would on their return / to their [inserted: own] home, have seated themse[inserted: lves] comfortably / by a large fire, (which we never are permitted / to do) & sent a few lines to console [inserted: me] so if you ha- / [time] [inserted: with] me [inserted: without the form of waiting for a letter from me”] / Thank heaven, this is not intended / [page torn] my dear father, I beg you will [inserted: read it] to the / one who best will understand it - Yours is not / formal affection, I hope it never will be - Do / love me, Do continue to love your Ann, for / I believe there are very few besides you, who / care any thing about her - /
May heaven bless you, /
Prays your dutiful & affectionate/
Child - /
A.A. Hoffman - /
I have written to Ogden this evening/
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[Address]
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Alice Ann Hoffman/
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Judge Josiah Ogden Hoffman Esq/
No. 66 Greenwich Street/
New York/
[Postmark: PHI, JA, 17]
[END OF LETTER]Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
