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Dear Papa
We reviewed a letter from / you at Albany last Thursday since whence we / have not heard from you, Mama wrote to / you on Friday. We had quite a large party / yesterday to eat Strawberry’s, Mifs Wells / Eliza, Ann, and Gardiner, came up Friday / and Mifs C. [Prince], Mr E [Prince], Mr B-[??]-th / and Mr McIntyre came up Saturday to / dinner and Mr and Mrs [Prince], Mifs [Prince], / Mrs. Wells, Mifs Coles and Mifs Bradley / with some of the scholars from the / Academy came up in the afternoon / they appeared to enjoy themselves very / much, and we spent a very pleasant / day. I wished very much you could have / been with us. The weather was very /
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Fine and we took a sail to the mill in the / afternoon They all returned home in the / evening except Mifs Coles and the children / and we have rain to day so they will not / go down untill Monday,
You did not say whether Aunt Renfselaer / would return [^ with you] but I hope she will, do Pa / try and persuade her to come, the Country / looks very pleasant new and we all want / to see her very much, _ We are all very / well here except Mama has got the Rhumatism / I have nothing particular to inform you about / the Farm every thing I believe is going on very / well . all here send there love to you with
Your affectionate Daughterr
Joanna
Croton Sunday June 2nd 1833
Dear Papa I went down the Sing SIng / Monday with the children I neglected sending / this letter to the office before I went and when I / returned it was to late so as I had to keep it for / the next mail I thought I would open it and / write something more Mama received a letter
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From you last evening and was much surprised / to hear that you had not received any from / her as she had write twice. The weather is / very pleasant [here?] we drank tea yesterday / at Mrs Crugers The new Academy at Sing Sing / fell down on Sunday night about 10 oclock / they had finished the stone work on saturday / night and there had been a great many people / to see it on Sunday, I think it was very fortunate / it did not fall in the day as it might have / killed some one. The back wall is entirely [page torn] / down and part of the [sides?] It is said [page torn] / will lose a great deal by it, and will not / be able to rebuild it
Joanna
Wednesday morning
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To Philip G. Van Wyck Esq’r
Syracuse
Onondaga County
[POSTMARK]
Cortlandttown NY 18 [?]
June 5
Mifs Joanna Van Wyck
June 2nd 1833
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Role of Sing Sing
Academy –
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Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
