Find results with:

Search by date

Rate

To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed the entire object, paste this HTML in website

To link to this page, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed this page, paste this HTML in website

William Bard Letter to his Great-Aunt, 1790

View Image & Text

Print

This page

All

Subset

Text Search...

Loading content ...

you wish to report:

Your comment:

Your Name:

Submit

Cancel

...

Rating
Title	William Bard Letter to his Great-Aunt, 1790
Creator	Bard, William, 1778-1853
Date.Original	1790-01-24
Description	This letter was written by William Bard, father of St. Stephen's founder John Bard, to his Great-Aunt, Mary Martha Campbell. In a note appended by Arthur Sands, he mentions that William was born in New York during its occupation by the British. At age twelve, William's penmanship is excellent.
Subject.LCSH	Manuscripts Bard family
Subject.TGM	Correspondence Children reading & writing
Personal Name	Bard, William, 1778-1853
HRVH Topic	People
Language	eng
Coverage	18th century
Format.Original	handwritten letter; 14.5 x 9 in. (36.5 x 23 cm.) folded to 7.25 x 9 in. (18.25 x 23 cm.)
Type	Text
Source	Bard Family Papers
Resource Identifier	bc_bfpa.wb.001
Publisher.Digital	Bard College Archives
Date.Digital	2007-01
Format.Digital	image/jpeg
Digital.Collection	Bard Family Papers
Holding Institution	Bard College Archives, Stevenson Library, Bard College
Contact Information	1 Library Road, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 (845) 758-7396 http://www.bard.edu/archives/digitalcoll.htm
Rights	Prior written permission required to use any photograph from the Bard College Libraries.
Technical Data	Archival TIFF - MicroTek ScanMaker 6800; Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0; dpi; 24 bit color; RGB; bytes ;
Compound Objects	wbl1

Title	Page 1
Relation	William Bard to Mary Martha Campbell, Jan. 24, 1790, p. 1
Resource Identifier	bc_bfpa.wb.001.a.jpg
Format.Digital	image/jpeg
Contact Information	1 Library Road, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 (845) 758-7396 http://www.bard.edu/archives/digitalcoll.htm
Rights	Prior written permission required to use any photograph from the Bard College Libraries.
Transcript	1790 Dear Aunt In your last letter to Collin, you told him to tell me that I had forgot you, because of my negligence in not writing to you but that indeed is a mistake for there is not a day, but that I think of you and all my good friends at Amwell; I am so much taken up with my schooling that I have no time to write to any of my acquaintance. I go to another master, his name is Murdoch, my Papa thinks him an excellent one he has three hundred pounds a year which is a great price, considering he has but eight scholars; I have got as far as Ovid, and to division in arithmetic.
Compound Objects	wbl1

	All
	Pages Enter page numbers or page ranges separated by commas. For example: 1,3,5-12