Transcription
J L Van Wyck
To M S Van Wyck
May 21st 1834
Wednesday Evening
My Dear Mama
Agreable to your request that / I should write you on Wednesday I have / now commenced to do so, I presume you are / at this time on your way up the river, we / have had very warm pleasant [^ weather] since you left / us I think you must of found it rather / uncomfortably so in New York. __ Cortlandt wrote / to Papa on Monday something about the painting / of the House at Sing Sing, he expected to have / received an answer to day but did not I think / cream colour is prettier than yellow to paint / it . ____ There was a man by the name of / [Gideny] hung himself last night in / Sing Sing, he was from New York and had / been boarding at Nelsons on the dock
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He was rather dissipated and after his frolics / would generally be very melancholy and had expres - / himself that if he could not break himself / of the habit he would hang himself, he had / now been in a frolic for several days and was / found this morning hanging to the bedpost in / his room dead. ___
I believe I have no other news to inform you / of We are all very well here and write in / love to you all Tell Aunt we expect to see her / on your return and are anticipating a great deal / of pleasure in her visit, Do write soon
Your affectionate duaighter
Joanna
Croton May 21st 1834
P.S. I found your card case and cards this morning / in your drawer had I seen them before i should / have sent them to you as I think you might / have mifsed them very much
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Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
