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CATALOG NUMBER VC 1217
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE May 21, 1832
AUTHOR Joanna Livingston Van Wyck
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L7NW-NM8
(approx. 20 years old?)
RECIPIENT Mary Smith Gardiner Van Wyck
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Catharine Van Wyck (sister), Cortlandt Van Wyck (brother), Philip
Gilbert Van Wyck (Papa), The Patroon (Stephen Van Rensselear),
“Aunt”, Mrs Bromley,
PLACES Franklin House, “up there” (to Bromley?),
https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-lost-franklin-house-hotel-broadway.html#google_vignette
https://archive.org/details/newyorkasitisin102will/page/152/mode/2up?q=boarding+house (1833-34, page 153 “Franklin House, 197 Broadway, Newton Hays”.
KEYWORDS visit to NYC with father, shopping, clothes, fabric and household
goods: matting, stair carpeting, handkerchief, cap, paper.
Dear Mama
We arrived here last / evening all safe and got rooms / at the Franklin House I have / been out shoping all the morning / and have obtained the things / you sent for, I got 19 yards of Mat- / ting at ⅚ the coulered was 7/ of the / same quality and I think this / looks quite as well if not better / the stair carpeting was 7/ a yard / Catharine’s Handkerchief was 12/ / I did not get any cap for Cortlandt / as they are not fashionable this / summer and as we could not tell / as to the size of a hat Papa thinks / he better wait until he come down /
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himself, I saw the Patroon to / day he sais Aunt expects to come down / on Wednesday Papa thinks I better / stay here until she comes /
I have not see Mrs Bromley yet but / am a going up there this afternoon / I will write you again when Aunt / come in town My love at home
Your affectionate
Daughter Joanna
New York May 21st 1832
P.S. I got one piece of Paper like / the [Patroon?] and 4 different as you / directed
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J. Van Wyck to
M S Van Wyck
May 21st 1832Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
