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Catalog Number: HF 3041 G
Object Name: Letter
Date: May 27, 1838
Author: {F.C.?} Colden
Recipient: Emma Nicholas
Medium: Paper and ink
Description: Four-page handwritten letter from F.C. Colden to Emma Nicholas. People: Caroline Morris, Mary Rhinelander, John King, Virginia Southard, Caty, Julia, George, David (President of a Gas Company), Mary, Montgomery Livington, Robert L. Livingston, Ogden Hoffman. Subjects: changes in Emma’s life, illness in the area.
Letter sent by post.
HF 3041 G
Hudson Square, May 27th, 1838
My dear Emma/ Mrs Jones has obligingly sent to me to offer / to take charge of a letter or parcel for your and I ahouls /gladly have accepted her off for the latter but that I am / completely puzzled to know what would be most ? / ?ful to you. Pray when you are most kind enough / to write do tell me frankly whether my having you to choose / for yourself, you prefer, to my sending articles of dress, books, etc. I hope / you will remember my dislike of writing, my dear Emma, / and have not perceived that I love you less or feel less / pleasure in hearing from you. I certainly have no right to expect a letter of the, but do not give me less / and at least once in six moths let me know the ad- / vances you are making in comforts and how far you / are reconciled to the change. Your last letter was a / great pleasure to me and did you much credit. / The life you had is so new to me, that any little circum / stance is interesting, and you can be at no loss for a / subject. How near are you ? and do you ever go there and /see Caroline Morris? I suppose Mary Rhinelander / will have told you herself of her engagement to John King. He is a handsome your man and very / agreeable and gentleman like. She has certainly chosen / well among her admirers and rom his character / I think her chance of happiness in her married / life is very great I ? will not be here at her / wedding, which she will regret, I am sure [word crossed out] / [words crossed out} The engagement did not take place/ ‘til after he had sailed. I saw Caty a day or two ago / who has been spending the winter with Julia at Philadelphia, and she told me she was quite well / and cheerful. She has been here but we have had / bouts of sickness and anxiety for some months and / I have not been well, nor could I see visitors. / Our sister in law, the Dr.’s wife, was confined / nearly 2 months ago, and for the first three months / was extremely well, but she had then an alarming / attack – a pressure on the brain and a continued / pulse of 120 or 30. She had three physicians constantly / attending her, and they only paid their last visit / yesterday. She was then well enough to go over to / her father’s ? Knight, three miles from Hoboken. / and George who had just come over, says she has been / sick and I ? not extremely well. We have been very / much disturbed, but are now quite easy about her. / tho’ her pulse is still ? llly high. David went / yesterday to Philadelphia again himself. He is still / President of the gas Company and likes his occu /pation very well. WE are, I hope, settled entirely / with ?. He does not express / any wish to go to housekeeping and we ladies are too comfortable thus far / being together not to demand any changes. George ? wife have been here the whole winter with us, and / with ? oldest child 14 months old, has been a delight to us. ? Pray tell me particularly about ? and her little / family. David left his ? for ? and ? beg your / acceptance of the enclosed $25. We send gold to / give you no trouble about bills. It is said positively / that your uncle Ogden Hoffman is engaged to Virginia / Southard. She is a pretty ladylike girl, I know. I do not know her myself. I know your family write / pretty regularly as I have said little about them. / Your must tell me when you who you wish to hear about, that I / am in the way of seeing. Mary ? had a lover, Montgomery Livingston, a son of Robert L’s. but her mother will not let her enjoy herself as she is too young. That is her only objection , so if is constant, 2 or 3 years /she will certainly marry him. He is feet 2, and very handsome / and that is all I know of him. He is just returned from / abroad and is just 21 himself. / Good bye, dear Emma, and believe me very truly your friend F. C. Colden
ADDRESS:
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Miss Nicholas
