Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER HF 3043 I
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE August 27, 1836
AUTHOR Eliza Storrs (Oyster Ponds)
RECIPIENT Emma Nicholas (17th Street, NYC)
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE
PLACES 17th Street
EVENTS returned from Oyster Ponds, come down
49th
Addressed to Miss Emma Nicholas
Care of Judge Hoffman
New York
My dearest Emma
I arrive last evening and / once more at home I wish so much to see you that if you were / not in 17th Street and I was not very tired and had not as / much as can be done to regulate my affairs to day, I would / tell you myself and not send this little scrawl to announce my return. Had it been certain that we would leave / Oyster Ponds yesterday I would have written to you on / Wednesday by the boat but it was not decided then.
Now do come down as soon as / you receive this and stay all night. I have a thousand / things to day and more than that I am extremely anxious / to behold your dear face once more. I am so glad to be / at home you do now know how pleasant New York / looks, because it is my home I suppose, for without / that attraction it has not many charms, but home and / friends (and New York is the home of some friends most / dear to me) have made me rejoice to return.
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I shall expect you every day until I see / you. Until then good bye, I must go to breakfast / now, and leave all until I see you when you shall / hear about Oyster Ponds until you are bored.
Your Sincere friend
Eliza StorrsTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
