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New york December 29th 1833
Dear Joanna
I received you Letters of the 28th instant / Last evening and also the bundle to Eliza and the studs & / Collars, as yet I have not been able to see Mr [Howland] as the / old Man was not very well after having come to the City. _ / A few days since there was an extensive robbery committed, the / store of Juelery on the corner of Cortlandt & Broadway was / entered by robers in the absence of the owner & Clerks who / were gone to their meals, in the evening and the amound / of the good taken was very Great say near $18.000 a reward / of $1000 was offered, and last evening I was told that the / Police Officers had traced out [^ and got] the goods all but $1200. / worth, but as yet have not been able to fine the robers / There has been some faluers two grocers and one broker, the / times for many is very prefsing here. _ I send Cortlandt / the Spirit of the [Times?]. Eliza was down here yesterday she / is very well, but Mrs [Brumley] has been quite unwell, but is now / better; I went there as soon as I arrived in town but as Eliza / was out and Mrs [Brumly] unwell I did not see them. _
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There will probably come a Letter for me with the / new york post mark if so retain it as it is from Mr / [Foote] one of the Lawyers in the Underhill Suit and he / told me the contents of it yesterday . _
My Love to All may this find you
All well is the wish of your affectionate
Father
Philip G Van Wyck
PGVW to
Joanna Van Wyck
Decem’r 29th 1833Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
