Letter from Edward W. Rankin to Catherine Bogart Putman Rankin, May 2, 1885

Date

May 2, 1885

Description

" A letter written by Edward Rankin to his wife Catherine Rankin. Catherine was visiting family in Orange, N.J. Edward wrote about what he was doing at home. He also included a poem about spring. During the Victorian Era, people communicated by writing letters to one another. People thought that a person who wrote well probably had good manners. For example, a person might feel disrespected if someone wrote a letter to them using slang instead of formal English. They might feel disrespected if someone replied late, or not at all. Catherine Bogart Putman Rankin was the great- granddaughter of Philip and Maria Van Rensselaer of Cherry Hill. Catherine lived at Cherry Hill longer than anyone else. She lived at Cherry Hill from 1860 to 1948. She married Edward Rankin in 1884. Today, Cherry Hill looks the way it did when Catherine and her family lived there in the 1940s." This item was added as part of the Diversity and Collaborative Knowledge Program funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Type

Written Document

Region

Capital District

Era

Industrialization

Topic

Communication

Repository

Historic Cherry Hill

Identifier

8_3_May_2_1885_EWR_to_CBPR

Source

Historic Cherry Hill

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