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Daniel Anthony P.M. [for?] In pencil: recieved, 9, mo, /[illegible] G.P. & S. B. Anthony West Philadelphia P.A.

In left margin: Battenville Feb 10--

Care of} D Moulson}

In pencil: Fathers letter to Guelma & Susan B in 1837 & 1838

Battenville 2 Mo 10th 1838

Respected Children

Your Grandfather is not quite as well as hertofore the rest of the family are as usual--Grand Father Anthony left here last first day after meeting for home Your Aunt Hannah with him--they were well at Adams--are well at J H Hoxie's.

We have now the best kind of sleighing--so last Seventh day had a visit from George & Samantha Vail John & Paulina Lapham from Danby--stay'd with us untill 2d Day morning--all visited Cynthia & Susan after meeting first day----your company was wanted in order to render the visit complete

I enclose a letter to Susan Mother it had better be opened--we therefore took the Liberty not finding it to require an immediate answer

I forward it to give her an opportunity to reply--the young man of whom information is wanted I can learn nothing of-Suppose however from enquiry that his Parents must live near Reed corners. Susan N. many know something of them--Our Quarterly meeting next week--did you attend that of Phila-------what is the cost of your Lecturer Hannah--Daniel R. & Mary are making very good progress in their studies at our District School.

Your Parent Daniel Anthony

Susan F Browns letter direct To Brainard's Bridge Renselleor County N.Y.

Battenville 2 Mo 26th 1838

Dear Children

The Pensla Courier mailed by G P has been rcd this evening under her Date of 21 Inst-Danl R. has taken it to the house I have not read the pencil writing on its margins___ ______

I have now to announce to you the death of your Grandfather Read who Breathed his last at one oclock this afternoon--he has been very gradually failing during the last two weeks-and for the last three or four days was so far gone as to notice very little of what what was passing--he had a very singular dificulty in his breathing for about ten days he would breath very loud & hard for 1/2 a minute then remain entirely still without breathing at all for the same space of time--he continued in the same way untill last night when he commenced breathing all the while but in a very laborious manner--we think he has passed away without undergoing a very great portion of pain for notwithstanding his breathing was apar rantly hard yet he did not complain of its being so--but everything has seemed to be comfortale in his mind & all done right by every one who had any thing to do about taking care of him Aunt Avis Donnalds is now here

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She came about eight or ten days since--no other of his relatives have yet come--we are hourly expecting your Uncle J. Mead who had been written upon the subject & we shall postpone the funeral to a more distant period on his account--The corpse now lays in the North west corner of the Parlour--The Bedroom from which he was taken after death is now left very lonesome indeed--your Grand mother has scarcely realized his sickness untill this morning when his breathing had become so loud that she could distinctly hear him--this seemed to impress her mind with all the realities of his situation and her lonely situation--her health is very good indeed--Mother is not well on acct [Phthisis???]--the rest of the family in usual health--Lydia Gregory is now at work in the house--the two Hyatts to go to the House for the purpose of putting on the Shroud the last garment required in this world by any of us-----

He was 83 years of age the 10th of 9th Mo Last--having lived much longer than any of us can expect to----

Russel Carter improves very slowly was at our house at dusk this evening & s. that he was a going to walk home Sally Burdick is now as well as she has been since her sickness but is speachless & allmost helpless--Your Aunt Hannah has been to Adams & Stockbridge the three last week

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Your Uncle A. F. D. has a young Dickenson of what gender I do no know--C. Hoxie is quite Smart--H R McLean & A. M McLean had their arraingment made for going to the north & left here Just after the closeing scene with your Grand Father.

They expect to gone two weeks__I think of nothing further at present--will you please to learn & write what day of the month Phila Yearly Meeting commenses--also how your Friends hold out--The family were all present together with a number of the neighbours to witness the last struggles of your GF I have said struggles--but he scarcely had one but grow weaker & weaker untill the end

With Love to both --as al[ways?] & your Teacher & your associates

I remain yours--------------Daniel Anthony

3d day morning we have no news by this morning mail from the next & have concluded on having the funeral on 5th Day at 11 A M -- Joseph Wilber will be sent for for another occasion

Danl Anthony P M.

Battenville NY Feb 27

G.P. & S.B. Anthony West Philadelphia P. A.

you look out for yourselves--How could and come to NY--How could you get from the school to the Boat. could you manage so as to leave the school in the morning in season to take the Boat or would you have to leave the school over night & lodge in the City--whatever plan I may think best to accept I will advise you of in season--The money you would stand in need of I could furnish you without coming as well as with== your newspaper writing is not easy to [invoice??]--give us plain characters or we may make some mistakes--your Par

Daniel Anthony

17th 6 A.M. Your Mother had the [Phthisis?] bad last night.

Will Susan N. wish to take the Farm school this summer She did last or any other and at what price---I might has made some inquiry of some one about her

D Anthony

Daniel Anthony P.M. for

G.P. & S. B. Anthony West Philadelphia P.A

In margin: Battenville} NY Mar 17}

Care of} C. Moulson}

Hamilton April, 14. 1838

[In pencil] to Susan F. Brown

Dear Friend

The arrival of the Post Boy a few moments since, was announce, and what was my surprise on beholding a letter for S. B. Anthony endorsed in an unknown hand writing, but when I beheld the signature of S.^F. Brown, I was still more, and most agreeably surprised. What could give me more pleasure, than to know that she with whom so many happy moments, of gone by days, have been spent, still holds them in remembrance; Those days, dear S.... will ever be cherished in this mind; and a renewal, of them now in our maturer years, would be as pleasing to me, as you expressed in your letter, they would be to you.

But, Susan, your letter, instead of finding me at home, enjoying all the pleasures connected with it, found me situated three hundred miles from that beloved spot; separated from all that is dear to me, excepting my elder Sister, at Deborah Moulsons Boarding School, a short distance west of the City of Philadelphia.

Guelma has been at school at school about six months and I three. We think of returning to our loved home in the second week of April, which is will be the week of Phila. Yearly Meeting, at which time we anticipate the arrival of our Father in Hamilton, to accompany us to our dear native land. Think you the time will arrive too soon, be assured not; every day is counted as bringing it nearer and nearer; but I hope these thoughts will not be sufficient to abstract my mind from the employments of the day; for by so doing, I should ^deprive myself of the advancement, which I might otherwise make in Literary pursuits.