Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER HF 3013 E
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE March [15],1806?
AUTHOR Alice Ann Hoffman (Ann Nicholas Hoffman) (Philadelphia)
RECIPIENT Judge Josiah Ogden Hoffman (Albany)
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Uncle Martin, Mrs Grelaud, Matilda, Rebecca Gratz
PLACES
EVENTS leave Philadelphia, return to NYC
KEYWORDS
*Original spelling retained throughout work; content appears exactly as written.
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Philadelphia March
My dear father
Matilda received your welcome letter yesterday / it delighted both her & me very much _ you say you wish / us to return by the middle of April ! _ Matilda is quite _ / delighted with it & desires me to say that we both speak / French perfectly well, & without any [French phrase] e houte / on all occasions, and at all times _ I think that we have derived as much good as we should in staying / here two years longer _ I speak french with perfect ease / and if I make a practice of talking it I am sure / I shall improve as much at home as at school _ / My music also I have improved in _ & I may say my / manners _ If then my dear father wishes ys to return / be the middle of next month we can _ Suppose / when you answer this letter you ask Mrs Grelaud /
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To let me sleep at the Miss Gratz’ for the remainder / of the time I am to stay here- They are anxious for / it & I have always flattered myself that the / few last weeks should be spent with them- It / will only be a few weeks for I fancy you will / let us return after the first week in April- I shall / come here every day, but I have during the whole / winer anticipated the last weeks as being so pleasa- /ntly spent in their house- You have only to make / the request to Mrs. Grelaud & she will consent it / needs no arrangement for so short a time- - - - / Do answer this immediately, & write to Becky, she / talks of returning with us, & if you will give / her a [unrecovered] [invitation] I have no doubt she / will-
Matilda [inserted: desires] me to remember her to you; I say / to you how delighted she is al the thought of return - / ing _ As for me, the happiest moment I have / ever experienced or ever will experience will be when / I fly the & to the heart of my beloved father -/
Alice Ann Hoffman
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[Address; written on letter]
Josiah Ogden HOffman Esq
No. 68 Greenwich Street
New York
[Postmark]
PHIL, MR 15
[END OF LETTER]Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
