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CATALOG NUMBER S 1019
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE ??
AUTHOR [M.?] E. Henderson
RECIPIENT Mary Anna Sawyer Schuyler
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Mrs. Lee (sister), Sybill Farnham Sawyer, William Sawyer,
Professor Everitt, Daniel Webster, Judge (Justice) Joseph Story,
PLACES the Country, Boston, New York City,
KEYWORDS “beauless”, “Trinitarians”, Missouri Compromise (“Missouri
question”), “kill cock robin”, “black velvet and feathers”
New York Wednesday Morning -
Ma chere Belle,
I cannot neglect so excellent an opportunity / of recalling myself to your remembrance, trusting that you will / not consider it an intrusion; for you pofsefs so large a share / of my heart, that I cannot help flattering myself with the idea, / of occupying some little corner in yours : if so, will you at a / leisure moment, let me know, how you are? And what you are / doing, all this long Winter in the Country. I am well aware / of your extensive internal resources, but how do you exist / this beauless after having last year, such a host of adorers / at your feet? It is inconceivable _ but you intend, I hope, to / let us see you, early in the Spring, you must indeed, it is / really cruel to be deprived of your presence for a whole year _
Have you heard lately from Boston _ how is your / dear charming sister, Mrs Lee and your mother and that / [pink?] and flower of all Batchelors, your brother William - /
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Is there any hope of their soon visiting New York : it appears to / [^ us] it would be but common justice, in our Boston friends, to / allow us an opportunity of returning some few of the attentions, / of which they were so prodigal towards us _
Apropos, there has been a great genius here, from That City, who / has come with the charitable intention, of turing us Trinitarians, / from the warriors of our ways _ this is no other than the / celebrated Professor Everitt, a most zealous labourer in the / Vineyard _ I have not had the pleasure of seeing him, which / I regret extremely, as I am very fond of beholding great characters, / of whatever party or denomination, and whether his doctrine / be true or false, he is a man of undoubted talents and / acquirements _
Your favorite, Mr. Webster, has pafsed thro’ for Washington / together with Judge Storey _ Do you not sometimes think of all the / eloquence now displaying in the Congrefs Hall on the Mifsouri / question _ and your not there to inspire the Orators _
But I must not detain you any longer from your illustrious / guests, who [^ are] bound for Albany, to kill Cock Robin _ I hope / you will not aid and abet them, in their murderous intentions, / by giving them the sanction of your presence in Albany, for if / you leave home, I insist + entreat, that you go no where / but to New York _
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Adieu my dear majestic friend, I long to see you in / your black velvet and feathers again _
Ever devotedly your’s
[M.?] E. Henderson
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[ADDRESS]
Mrs. Marianna Schuyler
Rhinebeck
Politeness of }
Mr Verplanck }
[WAX SEAL - black, imprint of torch, firecracker?]
LE BON TEMPS VIENDRATranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
