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CATALOG NUMBER VC 1748 E
OBJECT NAME letter
DATE August 17, 1810
AUTHOR Margaret Stuyvesant
RECIPIENT Anne Stevenson [later Van Cortlandt]
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE “sister Ten Broeck” (Cornelia Stuyvesant?), Richards the jeweler,
Captain Boyd, Margaret Walsh (dau. Of Sarah), Ann Walsh (dau.
Of Sarah),
WALSH: https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/LTVL-YXZ
PLACES “Bowery House”, Albany
KEYWORDS arrival of Ten Broeck from Albany, she had dined with Anne, more
about the commission of rings from Richards, Anne’s anxiety over
fire, arsonists in Albany?, sending slippers, connection of families, female friendship,
Bowery House August 17th 1810
The pleasure of being thought of by those we esteem, is / too satisfactory to relinquish, + I derive so much gratification / in Cherishing the recollection of the kind attention of yourself / and family while I was your Guest, that with your permision / my dear Ann, I will Continue a correspondence from which I / contemplate the hope of being more actively continued in your / remembrance. _ had I never previously been disposed to love + re- / gard yourself + excellent mother, it would be impossible not to do so / after having witnessed the composed + Christian resignation exer- / cised under the severe presence of Affliction _ which is Evidently / distinct + different in its nature from what is styled fortitude, but / (what to me) appears like want of feeling . _ I was as much delight- / -ed in finding my presence was no restraint, as gratified in the / many instances of kindness I received + it will be my future wish / to be considered among the number of those who have [page folded, unrecovered] / your friendship + love. _ I received your letter on Monday, for which / I offer my thanks _ sister Ten Broeck arrived the same day, I think / her her health is greatly improved, she has not as yet regained her / usual spirits + strength which is all that is now wanting to her / being quite well _ she mentioned having dine with you the /
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Day before she left Albany. _ I am truly concerned to hear the you / are kept in so alarming + anxious a state from the apprehen- / =sion of fire; it is my Earnest hope + prayer that your anxiety will / soon be dissipated by the discovery of these detestable + vile perpe- / tractors of so nefarious a crime. _
When I was last in the City, I / call’d at Richards + told him of what you mentioned respecting / the rings _ his answer was, that if he had told the Jeweller he / would make them for Eight dollars, they must have been rings of / a different description from the one I gave him as a pattern _ as / he told me it would be impossible for him to make them for less than / ten dollars a piece. I have directed him to make them at that price / agreeable to your order _ he says they will not be done in less than / four or five weeks. _ I send this by Capt: Boyd in preference to / the Steamboat as your slippers are to go by the same opportunity. / I have taken the liberty of detailing the one you gave me as a / pattern, that in case you should wish to have others m-xx- made / the shoemaker may be the better Enabled to ascertain the exact size / as it is probable he might make a mistake having made only one / pair, I do not recollect whether I mentioned the price in my / last, which is fourteen shillings. _ The two small box’s which ac- / -companies the pakage you will please to present to Margaret + Ann / Walsh with my love – offer the affectionate regard of my mother + self / to your Mama + the family _ sincerely your friend M. Stuyvesant
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[ADDRESS]
Miss Stevenson
S [page torn]
A [page torn]
Capt. BoydTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
