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DocumentEntry/Object ID
HHV 002.235Description
Letter from Joanna Livingston Van Wyck to Mary Smith Gardiner Van WyckSubject Person/Organization
Joanna Livingston Van Wyck, Mary Smith Gardiner Van WyckCollection
Van Cortlandt Manuscript CollectionTranscription
Transcription
J L Van Wyck
To M S Van Wyck
May 25th
[January?] 1834
Croton May 25th 1834
My dear Mother
I have received your letters form / New York and also the things by the Sloop, I was / very much pleased with my Hat and Drefs / Gardiner came home on Saturday [^ and] took his cloths / to Mr Tompkins to be made, I wrote to you last / Wednesday and directed it to Albany I presume / It arrived there as soon as you did I have been / to [Lafuryee?] the weaver and taken the thread / he said it was very good and would make / a very handsome piece of cloth. Ann came / home on Fryday afternoon Mifs Henrietta Graham / and Matilda Voorling came with her the / Mifs [Post?s] that were to have come up with / her have lost there Mother perhaps you / have seen an account of her death in the
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Papers she died very suddenly on tuesday last / Monday afternoon she complained of not feeling / very well and said she would go and lie / down geting in to bed she was struck with a / fit of apoplexy and never spoke after she died / about 5 oclock the next morning. ___
I went down to church this morning and took the / girls back to school. They commence tomorrow to take / down the old church they are to have preaching / in the Methodist [^ church] while the new one is building / We have had very warm weather here more / like July than May we had a heavy shower this / afternoon which was very much wanted as it / was getting to be very dry and dusty the strawberrys / are beginning to be ripe I hope you will be / home before they are all gone. __ We are all / very well here and write in love to Your self and / papa, Eliza received a letter from Mrs Sprague / yesterday she is a coming up here on Wednesday / It is geting late and all the rest are abed and asleep / so I must bid you good night.
Your affectionate Daughter
JoannaTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
EnglishOther Names and Numbers
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V 1224
