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Croton February 26th 1833
Dear Papa
Mama has received your / letters from Philadelphia and Baltimore / She has wrote to you and also sent you / a letter from Uncle Samuel which she / directed to you at the Franklin House / as you requested her. __ Dear Papa / I have been so unfortunate as to break / my comb and wish you would get / me some Diamond cement to mend it, / and also [Roderic?] [Dhuso] March and the song / of the Swifs Boy, Catharine wishes you / to get her the Swifs Hunters Welcome Home / nothing particular has occurred since / Mama wrote you except there has been / several applications for Houses We are / all very well here and very anxous to see you / all join me in love to you
Your affectionate Daughter
Joanna
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Dear Papa I had just finished my letter / when Theodore and Sam Sherwood came / here they left Citations for all the family / to appear before the Surrogate on the 26th of March next
Joanna Van Wyck
July 26th 1833Transcriber
Kathryn Alexander
