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Grove Hill April 11th 1836
My Dear Brother
I received your letter some time / since but as you said you were going to leave / Pensacola in a few days and would be absent a month / I thought it best not to answer your letter until you / had time to return as it would only be laying in the / office there. There was one come for Eliza a few days / before mine which I sent to her and I believe she / has answered it, She is in the city. She writes it is quite / gay there at present and that she is enjoying herself / very much, but I presume she has told you all the city / news herself as she says she has written to you. __ /
Catharine returned home on Saturday she is very / well and appears to be quite glad to get home again / after her long visit. __ I received a letter from / Albany a few day since Ann was very well Aunt was /
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Not very well She had a cold and has been very much / troubled with a pain in her face [^ all the winter] which still continues / Gardiner is at present at home he has left Mr [Fountains?] / It appears as if the cold weather could not leave us, it is / now the middle of April and the mountains are covered / with snow and on the back roads quite good sleighing / I never was so tired of snow before. The river though is open / at last and it appears quite delightful to have the steamboats / back again after being so long shut up, we have a morning / and evening boat, the Mount Pleasant has been sold and / we have the [Frank] now for the evening boat. __
I expect there will be a great deal of building here / this summer there is several new houses already under / way and a number of places have changed owners / Mr Watson has sold his place for $9000 be gave but / $2.500 for it, quite an advance on the price, property / is very high here this spring, a number of other places / have sold equally as high, Mr Ward has sold his old / place to [illegible - runyon???] Mr Graham, Ellis, and Dr Ludlow / have also sold there places. The Ellis Place is to be / occupied for the present by the new Female Seminary / as the have a lease on it for two years. Miss Prince is /
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Married to Mr Cummings. I believe the school will be continued / as usual, but I do not think it will be as successful / after she leaves it as it as it has been. ___ Mrs [Bowman?Borman?Bonaire?] is the / Principle of the new seminary here __
I send you the Papers quite frequently do you receive / them? I sent the Herald and Times yesterday / The General has not taken up his abode at Croton yet / he comes down occasionally but there is as one living / there yet but Phebe Fowler, Miss Cook has got back / to her Old pla[ce?] again and I presume the Dr will / be on as soon as the canals are open. __
Papa has just returned from New York he says y-[page torn] / friends there are all well he saw all but Oaks / who for some cause does not leave the navy yard / at present. __ I hope you will keep free from / any scrapes. __ Papa says I must tell you that / Comstock that stole the horse he wrote you about / has been caught __ We are all very well here / and all join in love to you, Do write again very / soon and
Believe me your ever
Affectionate sister
though dull correspondent
Joanna
Excuse the writing, mistakes, +c
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Mid’n P Cortlandt Van Wyck
U.S. Sloop of War Warren
Pensacola
Florida
J L Van Wyck
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Ph C Van Wyck
1836Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
