letters (correspondence)

Letter from George W. Strong, New York, to his six year old daughter, Eloise Strong, [Long Island?], enclosing fabric from cousin Sarah [daughter of Strong's brother Benjamin?], asking her to send him a letter, and encouraging her and Mary to be good for their Grand Mama; following the death of Strong's wife, Angelina, Strong's young daughters Eloise and Mary were sent to stay with their grandmother, Amelia Lloyd; lower left margin torn away.

Letter from John Nelson Lloyd, Lloyd Neck, to George W. Strong, New York, regarding Strong's dyspepsia and that which killed his wife and from which his son John suffers, the depression of Strong's brother, Thomas, following the death of his daughter, Eliza Griffing, the health of Sarah Cogswell, Jane Meng whose husband had died earlier in the year, the visit of Andrew Jackson to New Haven and comparing him with John Quincy Adams, and the likelihood of cholera reappearing in New York; hole in second leaf with loss to one line.

Letter from George W. Strong, New York, to his wife, Eliza Strong, Jamaica, Long Island, enclosing a letter from her sister, Olivia, and reporting on the state of the yellow fever epidemic in New York including the death of Rachel Philips and the rumored sickness of a Mr. Howland; Eliza and the Strong children had gone to stay in Jamaica to avoid the disease.

Letter from George W. Strong, Setauket, to his wife, Eliza Strong, New York, informing her that he arrived with daughters Eloise and Mary in Setauket from Lloyd Neck the previous day, giving their itinerary, and sending his love and greetings to their son George and Eliza's mother and sisters with whom she and George are staying.

Letter from Elias Hasket Derby, Boston, to George W. Strong, New York, acknowledging receipt of a payment of the income of Strong's daughter Eloise's Lloyd Neck property and congratulating Strong on his son George's engagement to Ellen Ruggles; the address page bears a five cent Benjamin Franklin stamp, one of the first American postage stamps (along with the ten cent George Washington), first issued in 1847.

Letter from John Nelson Lloyd, Lloyd Neck, to George W.