Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER HF 3024 H
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE April 13th 1837
AUTHOR Julia H
RECIPIENT Mrs. Nicholas (envelope), My Dear Sister (Anne?)
MEDIUM Paper, ink
DESCRIPTION
PEOPLE Mrs Jones, Mrs Colden, Em, Ogden, George, Caty, Mary, The
Duers, Charles, Spencer Elizabeth, Charles, “Father”, Mrs
Nicholas Belvidere, Mr Herbert
PLACES Fishkill
EVENTS Judge Hoffman’s Death
KEY WORDS Post Office, death bed
*Original spelling retained throughout work; content appears exactly as written.
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April 13th
I received your welcome letter last night/ my dear sister when I returned from Mrs jones I found too this letter of/ Mrs [Colde’s] to Em which I enclose. You have indeed had a winter of/ trials but I hope now that the Spring is come things will wear a brighter/ aspect, the loss of your box is really too provoking, but the want of weeks/ will I trust only be for a short time longer your Western affairs must/ prosper and the boys I think are likely to succeed well and you know/ you have a sister claim on them. I am sorry that the Post Office/ is in such a state you must have lost many of our letters as to our/ plans I will tell them to you again. We found it necessary of course to/ sell our furniture to pay the debts as far as would could at once the [torn]/ Ogden will take upon himself for the present at any rate. My future home/ will probably be with George but the summer I am to spend at Fishkill from/ whence I have had the most pressing invitations for Caty Mary has promised a/ comfortable room and board for $1.50 a week quite near them, for the last six/ weeks I have been staying with the Duers, they were very urgent to have/ me and we found we could not afford to keep house conveniently. Charles/ has a very comfortable room at cousin Emma’s so that I can leave him with/ more [satisfaction] than if he were in a common boarding house. Spencer Elizabeth/ and Caty are still in 17th street the two former did all wish to go to a place/ at once for the two years at 650. Elizabeth has written you a long/ letter and will be sadly disappointed at you not getting it. she was/ delighted to receive yours./
I feared you might receive a paper before my letter it must indeed have/ been a dreadful shock to you the scene keeps constantly rising before me now/ it was a more painful one that I can tell you, I never forget those two/
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breakfast and Spencer is waiting for it and John goes tomorrow/ early so that Mrs Jones is in a hurry to pack him up-/
Love again to the girls Ever your attached/
Julia H-/
(Envelope)
Mrs. Nicholas/
Belvidere/
Mr Herbert Illinois/
long stormy days when Charles and I watched by that death bed listening/ so eagerly to every sleigh bell hoping that it was Ogden or George who/ alas reached us but too late. It is a consolation to me that I was there/ to read the bible to our Father at the last thought it seems to me now/ that I ought to have proposed it before, but at the time I had so thought/ of his being near death, and his illness had rendered him so irritable/ that I feared to propose anything to him. I thought we had an unhappy/ home but I feel sad enough at parting with it, even the old furniture/ with which are connected all my associations I cannot bear to think/ must go to strangers. I must stop for I have been writing this before/
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[END OF LETTER]Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
