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CATALOG NUMBER VC 1187
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE November 10, 1843
AUTHOR Rev. Stephen Henry Battin (son-in-law)
RECIPIENT Phillip Gilbert Van Wyck
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Mary Smith Gardiner (“Mother Van Wyck”), “Sister Joanna”
[Joanna Livingston Van Wyck, sister-in-law/daughter], “Secretary Pierre” [Dr. Pierre Van Cortlandt Van Wyck?], Catharine Van Wyck Battin (also “Kate”),
PLACES Rome NY, “west”, Syracuse,
KEYWORDS “money expedition”, New York City, “needs a good
watch and silver tea set”, “camp chair”, furniture, details of
account, $100 sent on his debts to Catharine, Manhattan Co.,
Rome Nov 10th 1843.
Dear Father.
We received a few days since / a letter from Mother Van Wyck, written by her / Secretary Pierre _ I have but little to add in / addition to my communication to Sister Joanna, / respecting our affairs, but am now on a money / Expedition _ In going to housekeeping, just so / many articles are needed and nothing less, and / then you can add form [^ time] to time, as you have a / mind and need. While in the City last, I / provided pretty abundantly and paid nearly as / I went. So that we now find ourselves most / comfortably provided for, but I could raise / but little more than $4,50- and leave a / small due of about $2.50. I want you / Dr Sir. to help me at this time to $100 / charging the same to my account, this will / relieve me of all immediate demands, upon / my purse. – + my salary. + income will be / sufficient for the rest as it comes due. / an [white paper folded over image] to ask for any / [white paper folded over image] to ask for any /
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I have made it my rule thus far in life, to / purchase good articles, and we now have a Kind / + quality and a quantity, which I am confident / you would approve of. It was my desire + / intention, not to apply one dollar of this bond for / any thing else, than Kate’s particular use. She needs / a good watch and silver tea set, forthwith, but / her silver has encroached so much already / that she must wait sometime . before she / gets either of them, apart from these luxuries / she wants nothing, for a year to come.
There are two demands , of a little / more than a hundred dollars ៱ which I ought / at once to cancel. It is for these I write for / aid, from you. I hope you can make it / convenient before December first.
In the Spring, you must bring Mother / Van Wyck . West with you . + leave her with / us, while you so on to Syracuse.
Our house is really quite handsomely fitted up. We / are waiting patiently for the Camp chair, it / will be quite an addition to our merry little / [^ antiquities]-curiosities _ which my wife + myself have to / show. – Affectionately, Your Son
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Both these demands are in Rome. + one is occasioned / by an assignment. And the consequent necessary / Rapid settlement of affairs _ I am most anxious / not to hear from them again __ and still more / to be entirely out of debt. S. H. B.
On account on first day of July last stands thus
I believe $1070.00
Received — 126.60
$9.43 40
$27.75. Interest for 5 months 27.75
$ 971.15
Dec 1 Received 100.00
$ 871.15
On first July next [7?] percent for 7 mos.
35. 50
906 71
[BY 2ND HAND - Phillip G. Van Wyck]
Answered ~ 4th Nove’r 1843
Sent him a Check on the Manhattan Co.
Payable to his order for $100. 00 – try to
Send more have it indorsed on [^ my ??] Catherine
???
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[POSTMARK - blue ink]
18 ¾
[POSTAGE STAMP - red ink, circle]
ROME
NOV
9
N.Y.
[ADDRESS]
Phillip G. Van Wyck Esq’r
Grove Hill _ Sing Sing _
Westchester Co. E. N.Y.
[RED WAX SEAL]
[REVERSE]
[LABEL]
Stephen H Battin
Nov 10th 1843
Ansd sent
Him $100.--
—-------Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
