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CATALOG NUMBER HF 3041 H
OBJECT NAME Letter fragment - CHECK ORIGINAL FOR FOLD OVER
DATE January 13, 1836
AUTHOR (Mary Jenkins Nicholas)
RECIPIENT Emma Nicholas (Maloney)
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Charles Jenkins Nicholas, Matilda Nicholas Whitman, Ann Hoffman Nicholas,
PLACES
EVENTS death of Charles Jenkins Nicholas.
Phil’a Jan’y 13th 1836
Your very affectionate letter my dear Emma was / received by me with much pleasure as I trust it expressed the feelings of / a heart renewed by grace; may this my child be the commencement of a correspondence which my continue until it [crossed out] [^ shall ] be the will of my / Heavenly Father to remove me from this world of trial. It has long been a / cause of much pain to me my dear child that I should be so entirely ignorant / of those to whom I was so nearly related. I should have been gratified / had our correspondence commenced previous to the death of your poor / Father, as it would have been a source of comfort to him in his lonely and / neglected situation; to be deserted by those who ought to love us is a [page folded] /
feeling, but I hope both you and your sister did occasionally write [page folded] /
he was your Father, and no means ought to have been neglected on [page folded] /
On part to have produced a change in his habits and course of life, as [page folded] /
Endeavor by your affectionate perseverance to [^ induce him to ] place his affections on [page torn] /
Things. It is three months this day since your poor Father’s death, [page folded] /
But hope his peace was made ere he departed hence, most cheerfully, [page folded] /
I resign him, but all is doubt and uncertainty; he did before he left us / read his Bible habitually but whether prayerfully is a matter between him / and his God; at his request a Bible was procured for him to take with him, / God grant that its perusal may have been blessed to him, but these my dear / Emma are subjects too painful to dwell on now, we must leave the rest to / God. I do hope your Mother feeling as I tryst she did the value of an immort [???] / soul, did write to him on the subject; tell her I am surprised to hear / that she retains any regard for me, as her long silence did lead us [page torn] /
That the affection she once possessed for me was long since entirely wi [page torn]
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Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
