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CATALOG NUMBER VC 1213
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE January 28, 1829
AUTHOR Joanna Livingston Van Wyck
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L7NW-NM8
(approx. 16 years old?)
RECIPIENT Philip Gilbert Van Wyck (“Mama”)
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE “Uncle General”, Aunt Rensselaer, Eliza [Van Wyck, sister?], Mary
Smith Gardiner VW (“Mama”),
PLACES New York,
KEYWORDS ill health of “Uncle General”, her Lemon tree, Geraniums, the
sloop (delivering things between NY and Croton),
New York January 28, 1829
Dear papa
I have received your letter of the 23 / and was sorry to hear the ill health of Uncle General / but hope by this time he has got quite better / I received my things you sent me Sunday / morning by the sloop and also Mamas letter / I purchased the things she desired me and / put them on bord the sloop Monday . _ /The mild wether must be very favourable / to my Lemon Tree and the Geraniums but / there is quite a change since yesterday / it is now quite cold and is snowing. _
Mama desired me to write to Aunt Renfselaer / I have wrote her once about a fortnight / since and Intend writing her again soon / I wrote to Eliza yesterday I have nothing more / to write at present except the good health / of all the family who desire to be remembered / to you all with
Your Affectionate Daughter
Joanna Van Wyck
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Joanna Van Wyck
N. York Jan 28
1829 – to her FatherTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
