LETTER FROM EMMA NICHOLAS (MALONEY) FROM FRANCES COLDEN
Entry/Object ID
HHV 008.222
Collection
Hoffman Manuscript Collection
Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER HF 3042 G [note: not labelled “G”]
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE ??
AUTHOR Fanny Colden (Jersey City)
RECIPIENT Emma Nicholas
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Aunt Colden
PLACES Hudson Square
EVENTS
Addressed to Miss Emma Nicholas
My dear Emma -
I am very sorry / indeed to have missed you so / often, and hope you will not / go out of town without my / seeing you _ Cannot you come + / spend any disengaged day with / me and I will send you home / in the evening with a safe / escort in the carriage? Your / Aunt Colden said you did not / leave here until next week /
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And I shall hope you are / not too busy to spare me / a day _ you need not send me / word and if I should be out / you can take a book + amuse / yourself for a little while.
Yrs truly F. C.
Saturday Morn’
Hudson Square