Letter

Historic Saranac Lake

Name/Title

Letter

Entry/Object ID

2024.1.123.2

Description

Letter sent by Lottie Trudeau to Mrs. Sara Leonard, November 11, 187[?]. On letterhead of Henry M. Beare, with image of bird and initials "HMB" above "Parsonage, Douglaston, Flushing, L. I." 1s, 4p. Letter reads: Nov. 11, 187[?]. My Dear Mrs. Leonard, I received your kind note yesterday & only wish I could accept your invitation to spend a day with you, but I am afraid it is impossible. I expect to leave here tomorrow & shall be at Mrs. Smiths until Wednesday morning, when we expect to go to Rhinebeck, stay there until Thursday night when we hope to start for the woods, reaching Saranac on Saturday night. I can't tell you how sorry I am not to see you again, I am [?] now it will not be until next summer, when I hope you will be in the woods. Papa joins me in [?] Mr. Leonard & yourself. [?] wishing I would have seen more of you, I am as ever yours affectionately, Lottie G. Trudeau." Was glued inside a copy of the Autobiography by Edward Livingston Trudeau, owned by William A. Leonard [2024.1.123]. Loose in front of book.

Subject Person/Organization

Trudeau, Charlotte Beare, Leonard, Sara

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Letter

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Correspondence

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Friendship, Wives

Letter Details

Letter Date

Nov 11, 1870 - Nov 11, 1879

Postmark

Notes

Letterhead has "187" printed with blank for year. Letter dates between 1870 and 1879.

Dimensions

Height

8 in

Width

5 in

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Leonard, William Andrew, 1848-1930, Trudeau, Edward Livingston