Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER HF 3013 B
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE February 21, 1805
AUTHOR Alice Ann Hoffman (Philadelphia)
RECIPIENT Judge Josiah Ogden Hoffman
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Becky, Mrs. Hopkinson, Mrs. Geraud
PLACES Philadelphia, Mrs. Geraud’s School
EVENTS
KEYWORDS education, french, female education, boarding school, letter home,
children’s education, day-scholar,
*Original spelling retained throughout work; content appears exactly as written.
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Philadelphia Feb’y 21st 1805
My dear papa
I received your affectionate / letter yesterday, I have just time to write a / few lines to tell you how much I thank / you _ [Ere] this you have received my let - / ter in which I asked permission to be day / scholar here for the two following months / I yet beg you will grant it, I gave enough / reasons, & told you the advantages resul- / ting from it- I retract however what I / said about staying at Mrs. Hopkinsons / I would be a great deal with her but / I could not prevail on myself to leave / my Becky under whose protection I / am- I beg you will not think I will
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as upon second consideration I thought / it would not be as proper Let it pass / as if I had not spoken of it, Do not / say any thing of it to Becky for per - / haps she would be hurt to think / I wished to leave her- the bell rings / for breakfast & I must obey
But believe me /
Ever & forever your
Child
A.A. Hoffman
Do answer me soon my dear / father & say “yes” to what I ask / you
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[Address; written on letter]
Josiah Ogden Hoffman Esq-/
[C Fountain] Coffee House/
Albany/
[Bottom of Page]
Ann Hoffman/
February 21st 1805
[Postmark]
PHI, Feb 21
[END OF LETTER]Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
