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CATALOG NUMBER V 1741 A
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE January 31, 1871
AUTHOR Ward Carpenter
RECIPIENT Madame [C. E. Van Cortlandt?]
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Joseph Bayley, Philip G. Van Wyck
PLACES Cortlandt Manor
KEYWORDS “Jay Map”, borrowed items, “original map of the Van Cortlandt
Manor”, deed from P. G. Van Wyck
Office of
WARD CARPENTER & SONS
Land Surveyors and Civil Engineers,
Ward Carpenter }
C.T. Carpenter } Tarrytown, Jan. 31, 1871
G. E. Carpenter }
Dear Madame
Herewith / please find the Lease that / we borrowed of you; also the / Copy of the ‘Jay’ map you / let us have; and, a [^ copy of the] de= / scription of that part of the / Deed from P. G. Van Wyck to / Joseph Bayley so far as it / pertains to the premises in / question.
I have had a copy / of the “copy from the Jay map” / made as you was so kind to / suggest. I esteem the map / very much, referring back to the / good old days of our ‘fore fathers / +c +c as it does.
I believe that every / thing has been returned that you / have been so kind as to lend us /
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Except the original ‘map of / the Van Cortlandt Manor’, / which I hope you will / never send for. I will how= / ever take religious good care / if it, so long as it remains / in my possession.
I have already shown / the map to a number of my / friends, and shown what / a find large farm there is / belong[^ing] to you left of the / original manor.
Yours very truly,
Ward Carpenter
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[LABEL]
W. CarpenterTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
