Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER VC 1280
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE February 19, 1830
AUTHOR Catharine Van Wyck
RECIPIENT “Uncle” ??
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Philip G Van Wyck (“Pa”), Mary Gardiner Smith VW (“Ma”), Eliza
van Wyck (sister), Miss Fish, Misses Delavans (which ones?),
PLACES Sing Sing
KEYWORDS plan made to return home from school, cotton floss,
Sing Sing Feb 19th 1830
My dear Uncle
I have not written to you in / a great while and I could not employ my time any / better than in writing to you. We were all very glad / to see Pa down here. And the letter that Eliza / received from Ma which told us of our coming home / and we were all rejoiced to hear of it for we want / to see all the family very much. Mifs Fish is / very well and also the Mifses Delavans and my / Teachers Dear Uncle will you please to ask Ma / to send me some fine thread and flofs cotton / Eliza , Ann and myself Join in love to you all / This from your ever affectionate Niece
C Van Wyck
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Catherine Van Wyck
Feb’y - 19 - 1830 —Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
