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Letter to uncle from ?
- Title:
- Letter to uncle from ?
- Collection:
- 19th Century Prison Reform Collection
- Date:
- 1847-12-10
- ID Number:
- RMM01157_B01_F08_016
- Collection Number:
- 1157
- File Name:
- RMM01157_B01_F08_016.pdf
- Transcription:
- Uttica
Dec. 10, 1847
My Dear Uncle,
We received today Evelina's letter which gave us much pleasure. Mr. Martin[?] added a page and sent it to Harriet. My whole mind has been absorbed in assisting the young ladies of Eliza's age in making preparations for a fair which is to take place next Wednesday evening at Bagg's hotel. It is for the benefit of the poor and [?] as much interest in it as if the whole responsibility rested upon me. I have made a child! [?] embroidered with [?] for it, like the one I embroidered for Throopy when he was a baby. We are now manufacturing a [?] doll, about as tall as Throopy, who is to stand in the middle of a table with tattered clothes, a basket on his arm and some [?] for sale, entitled "Remember the Poor". I shall send you a copy of the [?], though they were not written for this occasion. I found them in a little book of poems, and as they seemed to be appropriate, I sent them to the printer. I am putting our ingenuity to [rest of letter not legible].
- Work Type:
- documents
- Cite As:
- Enos Thompson Throop. Papers, #1157. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Enos Thompson Throop Papers
- Box:
- 1
- Folder:
- 8
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the 19th Century Prison Reform Collection is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of its age, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright]. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2017 from print materials held in the Rare and Manuscript Collections, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Katherine Thorsteinson. For more information about these volumes, please contact the Rare and Manuscript Collections at rareref@cornell.edu. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.
