1866 ALS Ida Lillian (Greeley) Smith, Daughter of Horace Greeley 2 Convent

Description: Condition as seen. Short ALS from the daughter of Horace Greeley publisher and Presidential candidate When Ida Lillian Greeley was born on November 17, 1848, in Manhattan, New York, her father, HORACE, was 37, and her mother, Mary, was 37. She married Nicholas Smith on May 1, 1875, in New York. They had one child during their marriage. She died as a young mother on April 11, 1882, in Chappaqua, New York, at the age of 33, and was buried in Brooklyn, New York. Husband: Col. Nicholas SmithDied of diptheriaBurial: Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USASourcesSource Citation Year: 1850; Census Place: New York Ward 18, New York, New York; Roll: 557; Page: 22a Source Information Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 100 Convent “Sacred Heart”Nov. 11th, 1866 Dear Chloe, Your letter received last Thursday gave one great pleasure. I am so glad you’re better and I do not give up entirely the hope of seeing you in New York this winter. Mama has concluded to go no farther South then Washington this winter, as I cannot accompany her. As to little sister, she is now here at school. I will probably remain. I am enjoying myself studying and partly realize the saying that “ones school days are the happiest part of one’s life”. It is very kind of you to offer to make some of that pretty ____ work for me, but I fear you are not able to exert yourself so much. I shall always remember what a pleasant time I had at your house and how much you interested me. Not having been to the city in sometime I have no news to tell you, but you might like to know something about the school, which Momma and myself think the best in the U. States. This Order of Nuns is called the Order of the Sacred Heart and has schools established in all parts of the world. The principal house is in Paris. Our teachers are highly accomplished and amiable ladies who become nuns because they think they can in that manner do the most good and not because they have been “disappointed“ as is a prevalent opinion among Protestants. There are from two to three hundred pupils at present, from four to twenty years old and some even older. We are about 8 miles from the City Hall. One side of the house commands a view of the Hudson and the other shows New York and the Park in the distance. The grounds are quite extensive, very shady and pleasant. I am very sorry to disappoint you about my picture if you really care for it, but I have none at present and cannot get them taken before the Christmas Holidays. Let me hear from you again, if but a few lines, for I must not tax your strength. Give my kindest regards to all your family and and rest assured of the affection of Your friend, Ida L. GreeleyDirect “Tribune Office”, N.Y.

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