January 25, 2024
1848 CANTERBURY NY STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER - TO LOCKE NY - GREAT LONG LETTER
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1848 stampless folded letter, with red "CANTERBURY/N.Y." cds and red "5" rate handstamp, addressed to Jonathan D. Conklin, at Locke, Cayuga County, N.Y. Lengthy, 2 pg. letter, approx. 7-7/8" x 9-7/8", datelined "Canterbury, February 20th, 1848" , from Harriet Secor, to her cousin, Jonathan D. Conklin, at Locke, N.Y. A well-written letter with good content from this young lady in the small village of Canterbury, in Orange County, N.Y., writing of the family, local weddings, a teacher who has gone to Texas to teach at a Seminary in Galveston, and of a fortune in England, which she hopes their family may be heirs to. Includes: "Dear Cousin, I have been expecting a letter from you a long time, and not receiving any, I came to the conclusion to write again, thinking you hadn't received mine, it has been such a long time since I last wrote. I saw your two Cousins, James & Caroline C. in November, as I was going to the City. He said he had received a letter from you, and that you were coming out here on a visit, but we haven't seen you yet. We have had a very open winter here, and but very little sleighing. Today it is very gloomy, foggy and rainy, which makes the travelling very bad. Father has been south about 2 months, tho we expect he will return next month. He is in Maryland this winter. He made a vendue in December and sold
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