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HENRY TO HIS PARENTS
   

Galway [New York]
July 26, 1808

             Honoured father & Mother   I embrace this Oppertunity to write to you to inform you that I am well at this period Like  wise Granmother and all the rest of my Relitives, and I flatter my self that these few Lines will find you enjoy-ing your healths, and my brother & sister it is a general time of health here. I endeavour to Make the best improvement in my Learning that I posibly can though at the first  it seemed a Little irksome and hard, and I hope to gain the point at Last--pray Dear parents  accept of my most humble duty to your selves and kind Love to my Brother & sister. I subscribe myself hoping You will look over the blots from your son, 

                                                                         Joseph Henry

            



    Henry Papers, Smithsonian Archives. Published in Nathan Reingold et al., eds. The Papers of
             Joseph Henry, vol. 1, December 1797-October 1832: The Albany Years (Washington,
             1972), pp. 3-4.