Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER HF 3047 B
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE February 14, 1840
AUTHOR John A. King Sr.
RECIPIENT Richard S. Moloney
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Phil Rhinelander, Jr., Mary Rhinelander, Charity Platt (servant),
Emma Nicholas Maloney
PLACES New York, Europe, Illinois, Mantanzas (Cuba), Cumberland Island
EVENTS stock sales and dividends related to Emma’s bequest from Phil
Rhinelander Jr., Kings travel to Cuba
Addressed to:
Dr. R. S. Malony
Care of Rev.d Dr. S. S. Whitman
Belvidere
Illinois
*Original spelling retained throughout work, content appears exactly as written.
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New York 14th Feb’ry 1840
I have had your letter of 28th Nov’r / for some time in my possession covering a note to be handed / to Mr. Tibbetts for $200 at eighteen months. I now enclose / to you, having erased your name first the note in lieu of / the new one having at sometime paid to Mr. Tibbetts agent / here $200 requisite to recover the enclosed.
At the time of opening my Brother in / Law’s letter containing his wishes as [inserted: to] the disposition of some / of his property, finding upon investigation that the sum left / to your wide was not so large as expected, Mary proposed / that we should add something it it to which I at once con - / sented = Wishing there for to keep the Legacy left to your / wife as exclusively as possible for her own + her children /’s benefit I must beg that you will endeavor to carry / out the same to your utmost, and in this instance to accept / of the $200 - for the discharge of the enclosed note as a gift /. In token of Mary's affection for [crossed out: your] Emma to relieve her as / much as possible from all difficulty./ For the present it is im - / possible to sell Insurance Stock, nor should I feel authorized /
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to do so at all unless expressly requested to do so by Emma _ / You will easily perceive the delicacy of my position, and my / difficulty in acting without orders from her, the legacy being left / to her before my brother in Law understood any thing of her intention / to be married. One half of the money I have sent to you to be invested / in lands, the Deed of course for these ought to be vested in her money / the other half is most capitally placed here in a stock yielding from / 10@12 p cent [pannum] _ I will either send the whole of this when if she / wishes it or else keep it as it is and be accountable to her for the / Dividends as the fall due. I know of no better investment in the / city, it as is as regards profit, than this Stock and yet it will not / now sell for par _
I start tomorrow with Mary who takes Charity Platt / as her servant for Matanzas (Cuba) tp spend the month of / March returning by the way of Cumberland [inserted: Island] + so north by land _ / I think the change of scene will be of benefit to her and divert / in some degree her mind from painful subjects _ her spirits are / not as heavy as they used to be _ She sends her love to Emma / + joining with her in the same
I Remain very truly yrs
John A. King Sr.
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[ADDRESS]
Dr. R. S. Malony
Care of Rev.d Dr. S. S. Whitman
Belvidere
Illinois
[END OF LETTER]Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
