Item 106: A Photostat, [no date], of “Extracts from Rebecca [(Jennison) Chapman]’s Letter,”, 1819 July 6

Item — Box: 16, Folder: 161

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Item 105: A Photostat, [no date], of “Extracts from Rebecca [(Jennison) Chapman]’s Letter,” 1819 July 6

Dates

Created: 1819 July 6

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Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

Photostat.

Condition Note:

Fair.

Measurement:

4 x 6.5 in.

Title:

Extract from Rebecca's Letters

Description:

A photocopy of a page from a book of letters by Rebecca (surname unknown). In this letter Rebecca writes about a young woman, possibly her daughter, Eliza. In this letter Rebecca judges Eliza’s friends by calling them insincere. The back of the photostat is signed by Ri Douglas with an unknown last name, the great granddaughter of Dorothy Steb Chapman.

Location:

Morristown, Pa.

Transcription:

Front: From a letter dated Morristown July 6th 1819. “Last Friday afternoon Eliza had quite a collection of young friends to visit her, the evening passed as is usual in such cases, many polite professing without much sincerity, and more solicited? to appear amiable and happy. How diligence and care to be so in reality that a masquerade is such a circle! How much envy, ill nature, discontent and chagrin, is concealed behind a smiling consequence?; how little of the real feeling of the heart is exhibited on such occasions. One hour with the being we love is worth ages spent in this manner. Mils Fine Back: Ri Douglas ? G grandmother Of Dorothy Steb Chapman