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CATALOG NUMBER VC 1277
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE March 1, 1828
AUTHOR Catharine Van Wyck
RECIPIENT Uncle [General Pierre VC] (see related letter VC 1274)
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Philip Gilbert Van Wyck, Mary Smith Gardiner VW, “Grand Mama”,
Joanna Livingston VW (sister), Mrss Dawon, Misses Delvans
(“Miss Margaret”), Hannah ??, Mrs Voris, Mrs Carpenter, Mr Miller
Margaret Eliza Delavan: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KLXK-J28
PLACES Sing Sing (Ossining),
KEYWORDS paint box request granted, education, school, concert at school,
Hannah’s birthday, boil molasses into candy, learn how to
enter a room full of company, learning to curtsey,
Sing Sing March 1st 1828
Dear Uncle
I have received your kind letter, and I am / very glad to hear that you say that I can have a Paint Box, and / I believe that I have got perfectly well. Papa came down here / on Thursday, and he said that they were all well at home / but Grand Mama; and I wish that you would please to tell my Sister / Joanna to write to me. I should like to know how my Uncle Theodore / is. Miss Dawson and the Misses Delavans, and all the young / ladies are very well. I send my love to Papa, Mama, Grand Mama, / and all the children. I remain your affectionate Neice.
Catharine Van Wyck
Saturday Morning March 9th
I was very happy to see Papa and Sister Joanna here yesterday. / Miss Margaret wished them to stay in the evening, for we had a / concert. It was Hannah’s birthday, and we boil’d molasses candy, / and had a little a little party. Mrs Voris, and Mrs Carpenter and Mr Miller / were here in the Evening, and Hannah introduced all the young / Ladies to them, so I hope we shall learn among other things, to enter
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A room full of company, and to make a graceful curtsey, We are obliged / to enter the room so, every friday, and be introduced to Miss Mary, / just as if she was a stranger. I hope to receive a letter from you soon, my / dear Uncle, and it will much gratify your affectionate Neice,
Catherine Van Wyck.Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
