Roelif writes to his daughter Rachel first apologizing for his "seeming neglect" in writing to her. He asks her to bring music to play for the family over the vacation. He tells her about local and family news, including a double wedding that had...
Rachel’s father opens his letter to her, the first after a long Christmas holiday, apologizing for having forgotten to put a warm buffalo robe in the mail sleigh that she took back to Poughkeepsie from New Paltz. He worries that she left a bottle...