Box for My Brother
Item
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Title
Box for My Brother
Description
Murray asks for Hodgdon's assistance in ensuring that a box addressed to her brother arrives safely at its destination in Cincinnati.
year created
1798
month created
05
day created
02
author
recipient
in collection
in image
notable person/group
J. Sargent Murray
Samuel Hodgdon
Captain Gage
Judith Sargent Murray
Winthrop Sargent
notable location
Boston, Franklin Place
Cindinnati
notable item/thing
Schooner "Sally"
favorable wind
box for my brother
journey over the mountains
rough road
document number
1798050255002
transcription
Colonel Samuel Hodgdon
Philadelphia
To the obliging care of
The Honorable W Goodhue
[editor's note: the following lines are upside down]
134 1/2 [editpr's note: the number is circled}
Aug 7
1798
Wm Murray [undecipherable] May
Boston Franklin Place May 2 1798
Dear Sir
I am seriously apprehensive that the frequency of my application to you, will at length exhaust that kindness by which I have been so essentially advantaged - but I know not to whom else to address myself - Although I have this day written to you by post under cover to Mr Thatcher, yet learning that the schooner Sally - Captain Gage Commander - will sail with the first favorable wind for your City - I take leave to apprize you that I have sent on board a box for my Brother, addressed to your care - you will have the goodness to attend to this box, and send it on to Cincinnati by the first safe conveyance - and if you can find a moments leisure to advertize me of its arrival, and the day on which it com-mences its journey over the mountains, you will add essentially to my debt of gratitude - I am fearful the box may be broke, and its contents injured, if not lost in the conveyance over such a rough road - but I have no doubt that you [undecipherable] give the proper directions I trust that you have received the volumes
of the [undecipherable] addressed to you and that they have answered your expectationsI tender my affectionate compliments to your family and am with respectful esteem [undecipherable]your most obedientJ. Sargent MurrayColonel Samuel HodgdonPhiladelphia
Philadelphia
To the obliging care of
The Honorable W Goodhue
[editor's note: the following lines are upside down]
134 1/2 [editpr's note: the number is circled}
Aug 7
1798
Wm Murray [undecipherable] May
Boston Franklin Place May 2 1798
Dear Sir
I am seriously apprehensive that the frequency of my application to you, will at length exhaust that kindness by which I have been so essentially advantaged - but I know not to whom else to address myself - Although I have this day written to you by post under cover to Mr Thatcher, yet learning that the schooner Sally - Captain Gage Commander - will sail with the first favorable wind for your City - I take leave to apprize you that I have sent on board a box for my Brother, addressed to your care - you will have the goodness to attend to this box, and send it on to Cincinnati by the first safe conveyance - and if you can find a moments leisure to advertize me of its arrival, and the day on which it com-mences its journey over the mountains, you will add essentially to my debt of gratitude - I am fearful the box may be broke, and its contents injured, if not lost in the conveyance over such a rough road - but I have no doubt that you [undecipherable] give the proper directions I trust that you have received the volumes
of the [undecipherable] addressed to you and that they have answered your expectationsI tender my affectionate compliments to your family and am with respectful esteem [undecipherable]your most obedientJ. Sargent MurrayColonel Samuel HodgdonPhiladelphia
Item sets
Document instances
In image | In source | Location in source | |
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[view document] (3 pages) | ZPQ05 (3 pages) | Collection: Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94) | [unknown] |
Document names
Type | Name | Location | Notes |
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Author | Judith Sargent Murray | [unknown] | [n/a] |
Recipient | Samuel Hodgdon | [unknown] | [n/a] |