Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER HF 3038 I
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE (1842?)
AUTHOR F.(rances) Colden
RECIPIENT Emma Nicholas Maloney
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Richard S. Maloney, David Colden, Colden Family, Mrs. Gaylord
PLACES
EVENTS Emma financial distress
Addressed to:
Mrs. R. Maloney
422 Houston St
*Original spelling retained throughout the work, content appears exactly as written.
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My dear Emma _
I was truly grieved / at the contents of your note _ + / felt it doubly, as I know our utter / inability to relieve your embarrass - / ments. You, who, I hope, believe in my / sincerity, will not doubt that if we / had the means we would not / withhold them from you, + that / this is not a mere excuse. I / must enter a little into detail / to make this clear to you _ Your cousin David has never been quite / clear of debt since his Father’s + his / embarrassments at Jersey City, + his income is devoted to payment of
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Interest + to gradually clearing / himself + therefore my income is / employed in paying our shar of / the family expenses _ He therefore / feels himself utterly unable to lend / money himself, and does not, he / desires me to say, know the least / who to apply to for that purpose. / My mother + all of us, lost so / much by my [unrecovered] cousins / that living as we do (+ we could / not bear at my mother’s age / that she should feel a change) / we spend every farthing of our / united incomes + I having just / had my six months interest paid / me, it is already applied for family / expenses, + I recently borrowed a /
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Hundred dollars from my / brother, to lend a friend who / was in great want of assistance / This is most painful to me, my / dear Emma, to be obliged to dis - / appoint you, and I only hope that . you will not find your relations / generally so situated. I shall come / immediately to see you + at least / offer that sincerest sympathy _ / I only delayed coming, thinking . I had been too [soon]. + passing your / time not strong enough will you / come up [unrecovered words]
Your friend +
Cousin F. Colden
Thank Mrs. Gaylord for her note / + assure her her apology was quite / unnecessary + we hope to see her / when she is better _
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[ADDRESS]
Mrs. R. Maloney
422 Houston St
[END OF LETTER]Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
