Letter to Esther Copp from Lydia Hawks
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content: 1802-09-16
name: label: recipient
content: Copp, Esther
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content: Letter written by Lydia Hawks in Richfield to Miss Esther Copp at Stonington, September 16, 1802.
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content: My Dear Esther
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content: I received your kind favours Novr 11th 1801 and August 29th 1802 I perused them with great pleasure remembering the agreeable hours we have Spent togeather at Richfield: but now the defliner is so gout, I must content myself with writing and I am highly gratified that our Correspondence is so lively. though I am afraid the Letter I have wrote before has been miscarried. my heart goes with gratitude and thankfullness to the wise Dispoyer of all Events, that thine is a way Devised where by we can Communcate our feelings to each other and more in particular at this time when it is in my power to address so worthy and noble a Lady as my Dear Esther. “you write you do not expect your letters are very intertaining but Sug claims for Anywere” I thank you for the compliment. but be assured that your letters are So intertaining that if I should have one every day I Should greatly neglect nobil and perhaps more Sacred histories. "you also write you are Solicited to join a circle of friends below Stairs and could with that I and the two Miss Fetch's ware of the happy party I Should be highly pleased with Such a meeting I want very much to see you at Richfield when we could have a good meal of common Table chat. I’ve have no news imperticular, Mr. Brewster can inform you of your Brothers Family better than I. it is a general time of health & in Town the young people met the other Day and had a very agreable Ball they appeard lively and cheerfully and if we had the happiness of your and Syntha Brewster's company our happiness would allmost been complete we had fruit that come allmost from your country –turn over– So my Dear Esther write every oppertunity and write when you are coming up to Richfield and if you think it is any ways likely Dont fail of giving me hope
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content: Except for your Self
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content: My Dear Esther
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content: My best respects
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content: Lydia Hawks
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content: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Communications
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content: Copp Collection
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content: Gift of John Brenton Copp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.006873.132
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content: 6873.132
label: accession number
content: 28810
objectType: label: Object Name
content: letter
label: Other Terms
content: Sheet (Paper); Manuscript
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 7/8 in x 12 3/8 in; 20.0025 cm x 31.4325 cm