Catharine Maria Sedgwick to Katharine Sedgwick Minot Transcribed by Patricia Kalayjian Transcribed on Primary Source Cooperative 2023

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Available under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA Attribution--NonCommercial--ShareAlike. CMSOL Patricia Kalayjian, Lucinda Damon-Bach, Deborah Gussman 15 Sep 1822 sedgwick-catharine minot-katharine Catharine Maria Sedgwick to Katharine Sedgwick Minot Massachusetts Historical Society Catharine Maria Sedgwick Papers II

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To my sweet Kate on this beautiful Sabbath Morning, the second anniversary of her birth, I dedicate one half of my first, & it may be of my last earnings -- 1

Blessed, lovely little being! -- every hour of thy life has been filled with a beatitude to thyself, and to us --

As long as our lives are continued may every return of this day find us grateful & happy in the possession of this precious gift, -- & whenever it shall please the great Disposer of all events to separate us, may we have a well-founded hope of a permanent reunion

CMS -- 2

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick Papers II

The letter-sheet has no page 2 (missing from the microfilm scan), but it may be blank as there is no bleed-through to page 1. The first two notations are on what is likely page 3, and the last two are on the same page as the address, assumed to be page 4.

Miss C M Sedgwick Jun'/Care of C Sedgwick Esq

Sept. 15, 1822 -- 100

Jany 1828. The Sum mentioned on the illegible/page was $100 which was deposited to/the credit of C. M Sedgwick in/the Savings Bank at N.Y./by R.S --

$100. from CMS/ to C.M.S/Deposited in Savings/Bank N.Y. by/R. Sedgwick

This money is/now increased to/$231.00 & deposited/in the Canandaigua/Savings Bank --/1834 --

Sept -- 15, 1822./Aunt Kitty.

This item might be seen as a promisory note rather than a letter. However, because it includes many of a traditional letter's components, we include it here.
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