Fragment of letter from Alida Livingston to Robert Livingston re: goods to be sent from England [in Dutch] - American History 1493-1945 - Adam Matthew Digital

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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC03107.01586
From Archive Folder	The Livingston Family Papers [054] January-May 1724
Title	Fragment of letter from Alida Livingston to Robert Livingston re: goods to be sent from England [in Dutch]
Date	20 May 1724
Author	Livingston, Alida Schuyler (1656-1729)
Recipient	Livingston, Robert
Document Type	Correspondence
Content Description	Most of the address leaf is missing. Docketed on address leaf.
Subjects	Woman Author Women's History Global History and Civics Merchants and Trade Commerce
People	Livingston, Alida Schuyler (1656-1729) Livingston, Robert (1654-1728)
Place written	Manor of Livingston, New York
Theme	Women in American History; Merchants & Commerce
Sub-collection	The Livingston Family Papers
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
Translation	Show/hide Download PDF (Livingston Manor, May 20, 1724) In the Manor of Living[ston]. List of goods to be sent for from England. 2 pieces of frieze coloured like those samples; 4 pieces of shalloon like that sample’s colour, which must be the frieze’s colour [too]; 1 piece of coloured [and] 3 pieces of white Welsh baize; 4 dozen fine hats; 8 dozen coarse hats; 1 dozen worsted caps, striped for men; 3 dozen woollen capes; 6 small pieces of multi-coloured cotton; 15 pieces of lace for ribbon-caps1), coarse [lace] and the medium kind, one somewhat more than half a quarter broad and [the other] smaller for the High-Dutch ribbon-caps; 2 small pieces of one-yard-broad striped material. Send for this if you can get a bill[-of-exchange]. I hope you will give De Lanse2) the money then when you have sold the flour. 1724, May 20. Notes: 1) Alida writes “treckmutse”. A “treckmuts” is a woman’s cap to be fastened at the back with a ribbon. 2) Spelled “De Lancey” in most of Robert’s letters.

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