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CATALOG NUMBER HF 3047 A
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE November, 8, 1839
AUTHOR John A. King [Sr?]
RECIPIENT Richard S. Moloney
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Phil Rhinelander, Jr., Mary Rhinelander
PLACES New York, Europe, Illinois
EVENTS death of Phil Rhinelander, Jr. , IL land sales, advertised in
Washington Globe, stock sales for Emma, Panic of 1837
Addressed to
Dr. Rich’d S. Molony
Care of Rev. S. S. Whitman
Belvidere
(By way of Chicago) Illinois
*Original spelling retained throughout work, content appears exactly as written.
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New York 8th Nov’r 1839
My dear Sir
Your letter so deeply sympathizing / with Mary + myself at the irreparable bereavement which / it has pleased the Almighty to visit us with was received / by me some days since giving me the must wished / for directions as to the the most agreeable mode to you of the / disposal of the last gift of one so dear to your wife _ / It is impossible to express to you the state in which such / heart rending news left Mary for many days; for three / long days she was in a stupor and I greatly feared that she also would be snatched away from me to join that / brother whom she had so dearly loved, but God in his / mercy spared her, and it is with the deepest gratitude / that I can now say that she had gradually recovered her / composure and in a measure her spirits; but no length / of time can ever repair that which she has lost. Other persons / and other things may divert but never eradicate the feelings for / and remembrance of an only Brother _
I should have answered your letter at / once but each day been waiting in the hope that the / answer might carry some part of the money in time for your /
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Land sales which by the “Washington Globe” I perceived commence / in the 18th inst + last a fortnight but before yesterday I have not/ been able to realize at all upon either of the Two Stocks belonging / to you = As yet I have been able to discover only Ten Shares of / National Bank Stock worth at par $50 - p share and / Fifteen Shares N.Y. Marine Insurance Stock likewise worth / $50 - p share = Upon the Nat’l Bk Stock I found Five unclaimed / Dividends of $20 each making together $100 - and of the / Insurance Stock I collected Three back Divds amounting / together to $187.50 = New York in its money concerns never was / more weighed down. Stocks mostly are unsaleable except at / great sacrifices, but on the arrival of the Great Western Steamer / bringing rather more favorable news both as to European crops and / general commercial concerns, I had an excellent opportunity / to obtain [inserted: a little over] par for the Ten Shares National Bank Stock, which / is a very fair sale, and in all probability is as high as the / Stock will be for a long time to come = Having no offers for / the Insurance Stock, except at an enormous sacrifice I / have declined selling it and shall do so until at least par / or more than par can be obtained for so valuable property. / There will be another Dividend due about the 1st Jan’ry when / in consequence the stock will undoubtedly ruse and you ,may / rely upon my doing the best that I can for your interests. =
You will find enclosed a Certificate of Deposit payable to / your order at the Bank of America which is the principal [?Per] / Bank in this city, whose Certfs I have most satisfactorily / ascertained are taken at the Land Offices and which I most /
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Sincerely trust will reach you in good time to purchase Lands / this fall _ The Certificate is good for Eight Hundred Dollars / which is thus accounted for
10 Shares Bk Stock with $50 p share sold at 102 ½% $512.50
5 Dividends unclaimed on above Stock at $20 each 100.00
$612.50
3 Dividends unclaimed on N. Y. Marine Stock amts to 187.50
$800.00
Whether there will be other Stocks yet to be found as yet from / some confusion among his Papers, some being among his effects, / still in Europe, I am unable to say, but from an account Book / lately shown to me by Mary a few days since I think that he / had disposed of all his other Stocks except the Two above [page torn] /
Previous to his departure = Should any other be found I [page torn] /
You of it at once and also remit it as I have done this, who [page torn] /
Better mode than sending notes, being most anxious to fulfil [page torn] /
Explicitly the last requests of one when I had long loved as a Friend / before becoming his Relative. You cannot imagine the / extremeness of the shock to us all since by the very steamer / which brought us the sad news of his death _ we looked at the / lost of passengers for his name; think then what a reverse / instead of his arrival joyous and delighted to see those whom/ he loved with the exception of one far off in the West, the vessel / brings a letter that we shall never more see him _
To your wife whom I once knew and who Itryst he also / gradually reconciled herself to part with a much loved cousin / and to all of our Relations with yourself Mary writes with me / in sending much love _ In the hope that they will find you all well /
Believe me most sincerely yours John A. King [Sr.]
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[ADDRESS]
Dr. Rich’d S. Molony
Care of Rev. S. S. Whitman
Belvidere
(By way of Chicago) Illinois
[END OF LETTER]Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
