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CATALOG NUMBER VC 1188
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE February 20, 1851
AUTHOR Rev. Stephen Henry Battin (son-in-law)
RECIPIENT Phillip Gilbert Van Wyck
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Catharine VW Battin (wife) “children” (Philip Van Cortlandt Battin
and others?), Joseph [Battin, brother], Father Battin (John Battin, also “Pa”), “little Kate” (Catharine VW Battin) and “sister” (Mary Gardiner Battin), Mary Smith Gardiner (“grandmama”), Joanna [Livingston Van Wyck, unmarried sister], Gardiner [Van Wyck, unmarried sibling],
PLACES Cooperstown NY, New York City,
KEYWORDS Spring weather, ice for summer, Easter week, $100 salary request,
fall that John Battin had, “little Kate” and sister with Van Wyck
grandparents,
Cooperstown. Feby 20th 1851.
Dear Father,
Your letter containing draft on Manhattan / Bank for $46, I have just received, and tender thanks for it. / my building is commenced, that is the carpenter is at work / getting our the frame. My wife + children are all well. My / affairs are going on as usual. I have just told my Vestry / I want another $100 . of salary . and shall probably get it in / Easter week, We have had lately some very pleasant winter / weather . to day it has rained hard / our deep snow is / almost entirely gone: ice in the Lake very firm thich and / good for laying in for summer, Joseph informs me to / night of a fall Father Battin has had. We hope he will / soon again recover, I will retain the draft a few days . it / may be that I shall have to come to new York on Pa’s / account, We are happy to hear again from little Kate and / the rest of the family, We all send love to our little daughter / and sister; Affectionately Your Son
Stephen H. Battin
Love to Grandmama + aunt Joanna _ Gardiner also
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[LABEL]
Rev’nd Stephen H. Battin
20th Feb’y 1851
Ans’dTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
