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Version: 4 (current) | Updated: 12/9/2025, 9:50:49 PM | Created: 12/9/2025, 7:41:12 PM
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Each letter is accompanied by OCR text, revealing themes of friendship, travel, family, and everyday concerns. The images capture the original handwriting, stamps, and postmarks, providing insight into 19th‑century postal practices.
@file_pinax:file {title: "Alice Austen Correspondence with Daisy Elliot", creator: @daisy_elliot, institution: "Alice Austen House", created: @date_1895_07_29, language: "en", subjects: ["Correspondence","Friendship","Staten Island","Travel","Family"], description: "Correspondence between Alice Austen and her friend Daisy Elliot, dated July 29, 1895.", place: ["Staten Island, NY","London, England"]}
@alice_austen:person {full_name: "Elizabeth Alice Austen", birth_year: @date_1866, death_year: @date_1952, occupation: "photographer", residence: @staten_island}
@daisy_elliot:person {full_name: "Daisy Elliot"}
@harry_me:person {full_name: "Harry M.E."}
@george_hope:person {full_name: "George Hope"}
@jack:person {relation: "child of author"}
@staten_island:place {state: @new_york, country: @united_states}
@rosebank:place {city: @staten_island, country: @united_states}
@london:place {country: @united_kingdom}
@brown_tinsley_co:organization {type: "publisher", location: @london}
@staten_island_bicycle_club:organization {type: "club", location: @staten_island}
@letter_1895_07_29_001:document {type: "letter", author: @daisy_elliot, recipient: @alice_austen, date: @date_1895_07_29, location: @rosebank}
@letter_1895_07_29_002:document {type: "letter", author: @harry_me, recipient: @alice_austen, date: @date_1895_07_29, location: @staten_island, mentions: [@brown_tinsley_co, @staten_island_bicycle_club]}
@letter_1895_07_29_003:document {type: "letter", author: @george_hope, recipient: @alice_austen, date: @date_1895_07_29, location: @staten_island, mentions: [@jack]}
@alice_austen -> corresponded with -> @daisy_elliot {when: @date_1895_07_29, via: @letter_1895_07_29_001}
@daisy_elliot -> wrote -> @letter_1895_07_29_001
@alice_austen -> received -> @letter_1895_07_29_001
@harry_me -> wrote -> @letter_1895_07_29_002
@alice_austen -> received -> @letter_1895_07_29_002
@george_hope -> wrote -> @letter_1895_07_29_003
@alice_austen -> received -> @letter_1895_07_29_003
@letter_1895_07_29_002 -> mentions -> @brown_tinsley_co
@letter_1895_07_29_002 -> mentions -> @staten_island_bicycle_club
@letter_1895_07_29_003 -> mentions -> @jack
@file_pinax -> contains -> @letter_1895_07_29_001
@file_pinax -> contains -> @letter_1895_07_29_002
@file_pinax -> contains -> @letter_1895_07_29_003Miss E. Alice Austen, Rosebank, P.O. Staten Island, N.Y. Miss E.A. Austen
and for her sake try to like our little and sometime I hope it will be for Annie - because I have made you good-bye, Alice; Your friend, Harry M.E. July 29. Brown Tinsley & Co. London. Eng. Staten Island Bicycle Club, ST. GEORGE, STATEN ISLAND. My dear Alice: - Instead of going to see you this morning as I had hoped I shall have to write - the horse has gone to the blacksmith's. I am sorry not to see you again before I sail. My coming Jack seems to fear off. I hope you are growing and are going
I hate to go away feeling that I haven't this chance now. Why not? You a good man and love away and trouble life & your mother to you. I want you should write to me; I have been & hope you dear, be a friend and when I get back give a kiss to my George Hope, Isaac & Maggie and Peter. Take care of my little Jack. To have a happy summer some time I hope we can again have good times times together. As I told Peter the other day, I love you and should anything happen to her you would be the first me I should turn to; I know I have given you no reason to believe this and it is a constant regret and
No children (leaf entity)