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CATALOG NUMBER VC 1274
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE December [?], 1827
AUTHOR Catharine Van Wyck (young)
RECIPIENT “Uncle General” [General Pierre Van Cortlandt]
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Mary Smith Gardiner Van Wyck, Philip Gilber Van Wyck (“Papa”),
brother David Van Wyck, “Grandmama”,
PLACES Mount Pleasant, Misses Delavans school, Miss Mary, “Cortlandt
Town”, Westchester
Likely Mary Ogden Delavan: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9NW9-PHR
KEYWORDS school, education, David “talks” French, request for a paint box for
Geography, wants to begin to draw maps,
My Dear Uncle
I now have an opportunity of writing to you to / let you know that I am much better than when Mama was down here and that / we enjoy ourselves very much at school I study Geography Grammar History / Arithmetic and Writing and I should like to know very much when Papa Mama / and Joanna are comeing down to see me I am very glad to hear that my brother / David talks French I send my love to Papa, Mama GrandMama and all the / children the Misses Delavans and all the young ladies are very well I am very much / pleased with my Geography and if my dear Uncle will let me have a paint Box / I should like to begin to draw maps next quarter almost all the young Ladies attend / to the branch and Miss Mary thinks it is very improving to them I will / try before spring to draw you the Map of the state of New York and put / in the canal Miss Mary has some paint Boxes and if you like I will get / one of her. Give my love to all at home and if my dear Uncle would write / to me it would much gratify his affectionate Neice.
Catharine Van Wyck
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[LABEL]
Catharine Van Wyck
Dec’r [2?] 1827Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
