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CATALOG NUMBER VC 1205
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE January 28, 1827
AUTHOR Joanna Livingston Van Wyck
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L7NW-NM8
(approx. 14 years old)
RECIPIENT Mary Smith Gardiner (“mama”, “MSVW”)
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE -Mr. Smith (school),
-George Griffin, his son “Mr Griffin”,
-Cornelius R. Duffie, https://anglicanhistory.org/usa/duffie_memoir.html
-Samuel Smith Gardiner and Mary Catherine L’Hommedieu (“Uncle Samuel and Aunt Mary”) https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L7FB-26M
-“Uncle Nathaniel and family”, https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L7FB-221
-Catharine [Van Wyck], (sister)
-grandmama (likely: Catharine Elizabeth VC),
PLACES New York, Boston, St. Thomas’ Church, Dey Street (Uncle
Nathaniel’s house),
https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-lost-1825-st-thomass-church.html
KEYWORDS at school in NYS, studying french, drawing landscapes, Mr. Smith
school directly opposite church, Mr Griffin preaching sometimes
for Mr. Duffue at St. Thomas, Uncle Nathaniel sold house on
Dey Street,
New York Jan’y 28th 1827
Dear Mama
I received your letter some time since and have no / good excuse to make for not answering it before but your goodness / I hope will excuse me knowing as you do my unconquerable / aversion to letter writing, My time is chiefly employed in / in studying french and drawing landscapes for the last / I [^ have] received many compliments from my teacher and the / young ladies who attend school with me. Mr Smith is con - / sidered the first teacher in the country and has not been / long returned from Boston, therefore his school at present is / not large but receives an addition of one or two ladies weekly.
The weather has been very severe so that I have not been much / abroad except to attend school and since the cold has [abated] / the walking is very wet which will continue to prevent / my going out. We attend St Thomas’ church and as it is sit - / uated directly opposite us we are very regular in going. / Sunday before last Mr Griffin son of Mr George Griffin / gave us the xx??xx the most elegant discourse that / I ever heard he is very young and is an delicate in appea - / rance as a female his talents are considered very fine / Mr Griffin preached by in vitation from Mr Duffie who / is the settled clergyman I frequently see Uncle Samuel / and Aunt Mary _ They are very well and give me prefsing / invitations to visit them uncle Nathaniel and family / are also very well. Their house in Dey Street they have /
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Sold to very good advantage for $7400.
We are all well I have recovered from the cold I had when papa / was here. Tell Catharine she must write to me _ / love to all and particularly to grandmama
Your affectionate daughter
Joanna Van Wyck
[LABEL]
Joanna Van Wyck to
MSVW
Jan’y 28th 1827
[BLUE INK - later, different hand?]
SchoolTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
