LETTER TO EMMA NICHOLAS (MALONEY) FROM MATILDA NICHOLAS
Entry/Object ID
HHV 008.216
Collection
Hoffman Manuscript Collection
Transcription
HF 3042 A
New York April 17th 1826 /
My dear Em /
I received your short but / sweet little letter while I was staying / at Mrs. Sedgwicks. Grandpa returned / this morning. He sends you a great / deal of love and desires me to tele / you that Nance kittens have grown / quite large and are very good / and very playful. Billy has grown / quite cross and he and Nance / fight a great deal. How do you / like the present cousin Fanny / sent you? I hope you will answer / her letter soon. She often speaks of /
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You with great affection and she / would like to hear from you very / much. Julia sends her love to you / she will eventually write by Mr [?] / Are you going to have cotillion / parties once a fortnight? And where / are you going to have them? / Tell Mother I believe Uncle Phil / has gone to the Lake for I have not seen him since the [?] day that / Jean [?] town. How does French / school come on? Ask Mother if I may / not have the frock that cousin / Fanny gave me dyed a margarine / blue. Tell her it is very much foiled / and that I have worn it a great /
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And have saved my other silk / I did not alter it because I thought / as I would have it dyed than / better not. And now dear Em I must / bid you goodbye as I have several / things to do before I go to see the / [?] player. Do write me very soon / and let it be a longer letter than / the last. Tell Mother that Uncle / Phil has not gone to the lake that / he’s just now here and we are going / out there to spend the day on Wednesday / He sends his love to you and Mother [?] / told me to ask Mother if she thinks it will / do for me to stay there two or more / days week after next. He was very kind / indeed to me. Goodbye again dear Em / and think often of your affectionate sister / Matilda /
My love to [?] and [?] I will write do not worry /
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To / Miss Emma Nicholas
Stockbridge /
Massachusetts /
Forward by
Mrs. M Watts [?]
