Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER HF 3042 C
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE April 21, ?? (probably 1828/29?)
AUTHOR Fanny Colden
RECIPIENT Emma Nicholas (Albany)
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Papa (?), Matilda Nicholas Whitman, John ?, Mary Jones,
PLACES Pawles Hook, Albany, David Colden, Uncle & Aunt (Cadwallader
Colden?), Cora (cat), Zoe (probably cat)
EVENTS Colden move to Pawles Hook,
Addressed to Miss Emma Nicholas
Albany
Tuesday 21st April
Do not fear, my dear / little Em, that I shall find / your letters stupid. I shall be / very glad to read as many more / as you will write me. Those I / have received have given me / great pleasure, and I hope the / next your mother will add / a postscript. Papa tells me /
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You are grown very tall / I send you two useful frocks / by this opportunity and if I / had not feared they would not / fit you, as you have grown / so much, I should have had them made. Mary Jones will / do them better, I daresay. / Matilda + John spent a day / here not long ago_ both looking / very well + happy. We are in / a great bustle in this house /
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For we move in a week to / Pawles Hook. Your Uncle / + Aunt have been there for a / fortnight with two rooms / in order, and David and I shall certainly / follow Saturday or / Monday with the rest of the / furniture. Zoe is in good health / + sends her love to you + Cora. / Though she [^Miss Cora] was not polite / enough to think of her [???] / you wrote. Goodbye my dear / little friend _ I am glad to find /
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You still love me _ Kiss your / Mother for me + believe your affect’
Friend F. ColdenTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
