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CATALOG NUMBER VC 1748 C
OBJECT NAME letter
DATE March 16, 181[0]
AUTHOR Anne Stevenson (later wife of Pierre Van Cortlandt)
RECIPIENT Margaret
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE parents, “my now only sister” [Sarah Stevenson Walsh], E
Hoffman, Aunt and cousins, “Uncle Cuyler”, sister Catharine
perhaps died somewhat recently?,
Sarah Stevenson Walsh: https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/LTVL-YXZ
PLACES Albany
KEYWORDS caring for parents, caring for sister, death of Margaret’s “Uncle
Cuyler”, muslin
Albany March 16th 1816
My dear Margaret - / You no doubt are much surprised at my long silence / Your kind + affectionate [^ letter] claimed an immediate answer _ but at the time / I received my my mind was wholly taken up with my dear Parents that I / could seldom leave them _ + when I did was obliged to be with my / now only sister Mrs Walsh whose situation then required all the time I / could spare _ + being in the constant expectation of seeing you here I have / remained doubly in your debt _ those apologies will I trust suffice for / my seeming neglect _ shall we not soon ben gratified with your return / or is New York to be your future residence _ I hope not _ your mother / has been very much confined this winter for want of sleighing of which / we never had lefs _ Eliza has been over frequently + looks very well – / I can give you no news nothing of the gay world not partaking of any / amusements _ I hear very little of them you Know I never was very fond / of them & do not [^ at] all relish them now _
What a Lofs my dear Marg has your / Aunt + cousins in the death of your Uncle Cuyler _ sincerely do I sympathyze / with them in their serious affliction _ but what shall we say it becomes / us to lay our hands on our mouths & our Mouths in the dust + acquiesce / in the will of an unnerving + mysterious Providence _
I return your many thanks for the mufslin / you sent - it is very good but am really uneasy at it being so long unpaid _ / Mamma unites with me in affectionate regards to your dear Sister + accept the /
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Same yourself with every friendly wish for your health + happinefs _ from /
Your true Friend
A Stevenson
PS
Please remember me to E HoffmanTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
