Item 3: A Photocopy of a Letter from Charles Cist to Jacob [Cist], 1810 May 22
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Dates
- Created: 1810 May 22
Creator
- Cist, Charles, 1792-1868 (Person)
Disclaimer for Name and Subject Authorities
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Access:
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Letters, receipts
Condition Note:
Fair. The pages of the photocopy are good aside from a little yellowing.
Measurements:
8 ½ in. x 11 in.
Title:
Collection of Receipts and Letter
Description:
The following item depicts a photocopy of a letter originally written by Charles Cist to a Jacob, plausibly his brother, Jacob Cist, on May 22, 1810. In the original letter, Charles is writing to Jacob to inform him that the painting Susannah, has successfully been transported to the Academy of Fine Arts. He goes on to request that all business matters be addressed to him directly, rather than through his mother and sisters, as it is inconvenient to fulfill them when they finally come by him in that manner. He continues on to include a number of accounts, one for the portage of the painting, another for an account with a Mr. Bradley who has acquired some Sumach sugars for Charles. He states that he has owed Jacob some money for a box of cigars, but has withdrawn some of the costs for debts owed to him, such as a pair of shots and other portages. The final account due is $1.73 and asks that the amount be sent to an address enclosed within.
In the letter, Charles mentions his mother and sisters. They have been included in the people section as inferred persons, with the inclusion of his oldest two sisters, Mary and Rebecca Cist, according to the appropriate ages for the time of the letter.
The painting entitled Sushanna by Charles may be referring to the Susannah and the Elders painting. The scene is of a biblical story, where a young woman, Susannah, is falsely accused of adultery after she refuses the advances of two elders who coerce her during a private bath. She is publicly condemned to execution before Daniel, of the Book of Daniel, objects to the judgment. He succeeds in having the verdict overturned by questioning the two men separately, finding inconsistencies in their stories.
Location:
Philadelphia
Transcription:
Front:
Philadelphia, May 22nd 1810 Dear Jacob, I have just attended to a most fatiguing undertaking, the ^safe delivery of Susannah at the academy of the Fine arts and would request that for the future all business that you wish me to transact, ought to be notified me and not as is generally the case be left to my mother or Sisters, from whom that labour is shifted on me, not unfrequently (sic) [infrequently] when the lateness of the time renders it impossible, or at least difficult for me to pay the attention which it requires. In the inclosed I have requested Mr. Bradley to procure me some Sumach sugars. I wish you would discharge the account with him and inform me of the amount of the expenses. I am indebted to you in the amount of th(e) 2 for payments of a box of Segars (sic) [Cigars], sent long Since, but as I have charges a-gainst [against] you (of a pair shots & some protages unaccounted for) covering that amount I have liquidated all a/cs [accounts] heretofore existed between
Second Page, Back: us. The expenses on the Picture are for freight & portage are $1.73 cts [cents] Favor me by sending the enclosed to its address remember me to all you inmates and believe me Yours Sincerely Ch[arl]es Cist
Along the side of the page:
Charles Cist May 22[n]d 1810 Has deposited the Painting at the Acad[emy] of Arts—
Written in another hand: Evidently Charles J[unio]r for the Elder died in 1805 R.P.H.
Philadelphia, May 22nd 1810 Dear Jacob, I have just attended to a most fatiguing undertaking, the ^safe delivery of Susannah at the academy of the Fine arts and would request that for the future all business that you wish me to transact, ought to be notified me and not as is generally the case be left to my mother or Sisters, from whom that labour is shifted on me, not unfrequently (sic) [infrequently] when the lateness of the time renders it impossible, or at least difficult for me to pay the attention which it requires. In the inclosed I have requested Mr. Bradley to procure me some Sumach sugars. I wish you would discharge the account with him and inform me of the amount of the expenses. I am indebted to you in the amount of th(e) 2 for payments of a box of Segars (sic) [Cigars], sent long Since, but as I have charges a-gainst [against] you (of a pair shots & some protages unaccounted for) covering that amount I have liquidated all a/cs [accounts] heretofore existed between
Second Page, Back: us. The expenses on the Picture are for freight & portage are $1.73 cts [cents] Favor me by sending the enclosed to its address remember me to all you inmates and believe me Yours Sincerely Ch[arl]es Cist
Along the side of the page:
Charles Cist May 22[n]d 1810 Has deposited the Painting at the Acad[emy] of Arts—
Written in another hand: Evidently Charles J[unio]r for the Elder died in 1805 R.P.H.
Creator
- Cist, Charles, 1792-1868 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu