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Grove HIll Dec 14th 1837
My Dear Brother
We are every day anxiously looking / for a letter from you, as it is now near four months / since you left us and I think quite [^ time] we should / hear from, I wrote you last month and sent / you some papers, and Papa and Eliza also / I hope you receive them. Aunt[?] and Ann left us / the day after I last wrote . I have since heard from / them several times they were very well and are / staying at Stephen Van Renfsalaers as Aunts house / is not yet finished . from all accounts Mr [P.S.V.R.] / must be making quite a change in the old mansion / The Patroons health is better. __ Eliza has been making / a visit in the city she returned last week Hannah / De [Lavan?] returned with her and spent several days
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With us. Uncle Nathaniel was hear a short time since / he says he intends moving to the city in the spring / I believe I have not much news to tell you . you will see / by the papers I send that we have had quite a large / fire in the village. I think of nothing else at present / that has transpired worth communicating. Our neighbours / on the right have gone to the city for the winter, they / are staying at the Antheneum, or rather she is, the Dr / I understand spends but very little of his time there, / the children remain up here with there governess / the Ladies of the village have formed a Club / to meet weekly at one or others houses during the / winter, and have music, dancing, and any other / amusement that may be proposed . I think it will / make it very pleasant, The [Engineers?] remain here / this winter, so I hope there will not be quite such / a scarcity of gentlemen as has generally been the / case at parties in the village as Eliza has been / the principle one in getting them up the first one / is to be here, they commence the third of January /
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We have had a delightful fall and winter so far / there has been little snow I have been twice out in / the sleigh, but there is no Ice in the river, the steamboats / still go to Albany. __ Papa is going to the city to / day and is to take this letter with him so you / must excuse the writing, as I have been not a / little buried. We are all very will and join / in much love to you and hoping this may find / you enjoying the same blessing
I remain most sincerely
Your affectionate Sister
Joanna
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Mid’m P. Cortlandt Van Wyck
U.S. Ship Lexington
Pacific Station
Care of the Naval Lyceum
Brooklyn
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De 1837Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
