Letter from Joanna Livingston Van Wyck to Philip Gilbert Van Wyck
Entry/Object ID
HHV 002.250
Description
Letter from Joanna Livingston Van Wyck to Philip Gilbert Van Wyck
Subject
family health and travel, life at Grove Hill
Subject Person/Organization
Joanna Livingston Van Wyck, Philip Gilbert Van Wyck
Context
June 15, 1842
Collection
Van Cortlandt Manuscript Collection
Letter Details
Letter Date
Jun 15, 1842
Transcription
Transcription
Dear Father
We feel very anxous to hear / to hear how your eyes are, not coming / up on Monday as you thought of doing / when I left I was fearful they might / to worse . if you are not coming up this / evening please let us know how you are / and if you wish me to come down to / attend to you. I felt very much worried / after I got on board the steamboat on / Saturday thinking I ought to have / stayed and attend to the leaches, / I hope they were a benefit to you, / Mamas eye has been quite inflamed / again. __ Mrs [T.?] Van Wyck left this [^ yesterday] / afternoon _ she said she was very / sorry she could not have seen you
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again . _ Have you heard any thing from / Cate? Or how Aunt Eliza is? It is nearly / a fortnight now since we have heard from / her. __ I found my things all on board / the steamboat that I had ordered sent there / on Saturday, and I got home very safely although / a very long pafsage, it was near 8 oclock / when I got home, we were aground an hour / at Tarry town the [Gazele?] came in about / half an hour afterwards so I did not / gain much by leaving at three. _ /
If you do not write , send word by / [Boat?Bart] how you are and when you / will be up
Most affectionately Yours
Daughter Joanna
Grove Hill June 15th 1842
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Philip G. Van Wyck Esq’r
Atheneum Hotel
Corner of Broadway + Leonard St.
New York
Joanna Van Wyck
June 15ht 1842
