Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER VC 1281
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE January 19, 1836
AUTHOR Catharine Van Wyck
RECIPIENT Philip Gilbert Van Wyck (“Father”)
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Philip “Cortlandt” Van Wyck, Mary Smith Gardiner VW (“Ma”),
David Van Wyck (brother), Pierre Van Wyck (brother), Miss
[Prince?], “Maria Luisa Cole”, cousin John ??, cousin Jane ??,
Varrick ??, Henry ??,
Death of Maria Louisa Cole: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61843/records/592119072
PLACES Sing Sing, Miss [Prime]’s school [Mount Pleasant Female
Seminary - Maria Prime?], Princeton, Shelter Island, “Grove Hill”
(at Sing Sing?), New Haven (postmark)
Map of Sing Sing 1836 showing Female Seminary:
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a007dd80-0a39-0134-93e7-00505686a51c
“The Ossining Story” page 16: lists Miss Delavan, Miss Prime and other schools
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433062526649&seq=24&q1=Mount+Pleasant+Female
KEYWORDS “Cortlandt’s Voyage”, Ma’s trouble with her eyes, are brothers at
school?, how is the new teacher?, death of Maria Louisa Cole,
snow, sleigh riding, new gate at ??, Uncle’s rheumatism, writing
from New Haven,
My very dear Father
I received your letter of the / 13th and I was happy too hear so interesting account of / Cortlandts Voyage as far as he has been and was / very glad to that [^ he] is so situated that we can write to / him . and that you receive letters from him often, / has Ma been any ways trobled with her eyes this winter ? / I have written too Cortlandt as you requested me.
Does David and Pierre go too School and how do they / like their new teacher, I see by the Papers that Mifs / [Prime?] has lost one of her Scholars Mifs Maria Luisa Cole / she died with Inflamation of the brain, I presume you / have heard of it before this, It is very cold here and a / great deal of Snow the Sleighs are flying merrily / do you go out sleighriding often I presume not as often as / formaly, is their much Snow in Sing Sing, Cousin / John has had a vacation for ab two weeks, he goes / to Collage again too morrow, I saw Cousin Jane / and [^ He-??] family are very well i xxx I saw them a few / days ago they expect Varrick home next month / from Princeton, Henry a is at home he is imployed in the
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The Railroad business / did any thing remarkable / transpire on Elizas birth day, relate all news which / you heard while in new New York, tell Ma / I intended writing too her very soon and also / to Joanna How does the new gate look / have you received any letters from Shelter Island / and how are they all their,
We are all very well here at present exceptting / Uncle which has the Reumatisn, their is / but very little news stiring here excuse this short / letter .
All join with me in love too you / and all the family from your / ever dear [?] daughter
Catharine
January 19th 1836
Write soon
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[ADDRESS]
Mr. Philip G. Van Wyck
Grove Hill,
Sing Sing.
[POSTAGE STAMP - red ink, circle]
NEW HAVEN CT
JAN
20
[POSTMARK]
12
[LABEL]
Catharine Van Wyck
Jany 19th 1836Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
