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@file_pinax:file {title: "Will V. Batchelder Correspondence Collection", creator: @will_v_batchelder, institution: @alice_austen_house_museum, created: @date_1890, language: "en", subjects: ["Correspondence","Personal letters","Victorian social life","Friendship","Health","Literary events","Family relationships"]}
@will_v_batchelder_correspondence:collection {creator: @will_v_batchelder, institution: @alice_austen_house_museum, date_range: {start: @date_1890, end: @date_1898}, description: "Letters from Will V. Batchelder to Alice Austen"}
@alice_austen_house_museum:organization {location: @staten_island, name: "Alice Austen House Museum"}
@alice_austen:person {full_name: "Elizabeth Alice Austen", birth_year: @date_1866, death_year: @date_1952, occupation: "photographer", residence: @staten_island}
@will_v_batchelder:person {full_name: "Will V. Batchelder"}
@staten_island:place {state: @new_york, country: @united_states}
@rosebank:place {city: @staten_island, description: "Neighborhood in Staten Island"}
@albany:place {state: @new_york, country: @united_states}
@julia_t_martin:person {full_name: "Julia T. Martin", relationship: "close friend", residence: @albany}
@julie_bredt:person {full_name: "Julie Bredt"}
@violet_m_e_ward:person {full_name: "Violet M.E. Ward"}
@isabella_king:person {full_name: "Isabella King", role: "photograph buyer"}
@bessie_strong:person {full_name: "Bessie Strong"}
@letter_april_25_1890:document {date: @date_1890_04_25, from: @will_v_batchelder, to: @alice_austen, location: @rosebank, excerpt: "My dear little sister, ..."}
@letter_dec_26_1890:document {date: @date_1890_12_26, from: @will_v_batchelder, to: @alice_austen, location: @rosebank, excerpt: "Dear December 26th, 1890. ..."}
@file_1890_april_2002_will_v_batchelder_jpg:file {represents: @letter_april_25_1890, ocr_text: "Doworthrie 25th 1890. My dear little sister, ..."}
@file_1890_dec_2001_will_v_batchelder_jpg:file {represents: @letter_dec_26_1890, ocr_text: "Dear December 26th, 1890. My dear Miss Alice, ..."}
@will_v_batchelder -> wrote -> @letter_april_25_1890
@will_v_batchelder -> wrote -> @letter_dec_26_1890
@letter_april_25_1890 -> addressed to -> @alice_austen
@letter_dec_26_1890 -> addressed to -> @alice_austen
@letter_april_25_1890 -> location -> @rosebank
@letter_dec_26_1890 -> location -> @rosebank
@will_v_batchelder_correspondence -> contains -> @letter_april_25_1890
@will_v_batchelder_correspondence -> contains -> @letter_dec_26_1890
@alice_austen -> corresponded with -> @julia_t_martin
@alice_austen -> corresponded with -> @julie_bredt
@alice_austen -> corresponded with -> @violet_m_e_ward
@alice_austen -> corresponded with -> @isabella_king
@alice_austen -> corresponded with -> @bessie_strongMiss Alice Austen. Rosebank. Staten Island.
Doworthrie 25th 1890. My dear little sister, The knowledge of your inability to find a suitable site charity to invest my surplus capital in, fills me with a glad surprise and nameless joy, and I shall immediately take steps (not as clumsy as my mother's steps) to locate in a short-to-arcadian. Many
Thanks for your kindness. In future I shall always return to you when courages are needed. I feel too tired and ill to attend the last Literary but has heard not agreed to discuss the subject; appleturning until the fire is untamed and clothes have at the one time, your refrigeration miss, your sarcasm was thrown away. I am feeling much better this morning and hope when the weather becomes more settled to be quite well again. Once more thanking you for your kindness and expressing the hope that we may attend other similar affairs together, and with kind remembrance for your mother believe me Your sincere friend Will V. Batchelder
Dear December 26th, 1890. My dear Miss Alice, I am glad you were able to recover at the last moment, but a frightful attack of headache made it impossible. If I can arrange to attend the next one it will give me great pleasure to accompany you there, and I consider myself fortunate to thank you for your kindness in suggesting it. My father will undergo the third which came to you Xmas afternoon should have been bill I could personally have devoted to me; he must so little hope of a successful operation. Still being poor because it could not but be detrimental. Still being poor, because it could not but bequisite to a degree, I may have to me rather a depressing thing among us my surmise: I hope under existing circumstances it visit the Solans very soon and to be remembered by and shall certainly inflict my new friends. It always pleases greatly on you while there. Withal I am glad you went out. I am glad you event-
To Mrs. Beeches, her residence during the day, for I know she is lonely beyond expression and your presence could not but serve to cheer her up. Well I tell you some thing in confidence? The more your character suffers do to me, the more I find it respect and esteem in yourself realises highest kind of the kindness of the act. It is rare in this generation and thoughtfulness for others will none have. I sincerely trust your Christian as pured a glory and pleas out-are to you, and that the coming few years from may hold delights
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