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Joseph Henry
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HENRY
TO HIS
PARENTS | ||
| Galway
[New York] July
26, 1808 | ||
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Honoured father &
Mother
I embrace this Oppertunity to write to you to inform you that I am well
at this period Like
wise Granmother and all the rest of my Relitives, and I flatter my self
that these few Lines will find you enjoy-ing your healths, and
my brother & sister it is a
general
time of health here. I endeavour to Make the best improvement
in my Learning that I posibly
can
though at the first
it seemed a Little irksome and hard, and I hope to gain the point at
Last--pray
Dear parents
accept of my most humble duty to your selves and kind Love to my
Brother
& sister. I subscribe myself hoping You will look over the
blots from your son, Joseph Henry
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Henry Papers, Smithsonian
Archives. Published in Nathan Reingold et
al.,
eds. The Papers of Joseph Henry, vol. 1, December 1797-October 1832: The Albany Years (Washington, 1972), pp. 3-4. | ||
