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Letter, Nancy Lee, Phippsburg, Maine, to William Woodward, New York
Part of: Packet Ship Liverpool Letters
Rare Books & Special Collections, Hesburgh Libraries
Nancy Lee's response to Woodward's letter. Lee describes her emotions upon hearing the news of the Liverpool as well as the reaction of those to whom she had shown Woodward's letter: "even strangers could not hear the letter read without crying . . . ." She concludes by reminding Woodward that "you never must forgett the Mercy of God to you, in yett preservng you from a waterry Grave."
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![Letter, [Hewlett Townsend Coles]](https://iiif-image.library.nd.edu/iiif/2/RareBooks%2Fcollections%2Fead_xml%2Fimages%2FMSN-EA_5022%2FMSN-EA_5022-11.a.150/full/!300,300/0/default.webp)
![Letter, W[illiam] Lee, Jr., New York, to William Lee, Esq., Phippsburg, Maine](https://iiif-image.library.nd.edu/iiif/2/RareBooks%2Fcollections%2Fead_xml%2Fimages%2FMSN-EA_5022%2FMSN-EA_5022-12.a.150/full/!300,300/0/default.webp)
![Letter, [William Woodward], n.p., to "My Dear Aunt," [Nancy Lee], n.p.](https://iiif-image.library.nd.edu/iiif/2/RareBooks%2Fcollections%2Fead_xml%2Fimages%2FMSN-EA_5022%2FMSN-EA_5022-13.a.150/full/!300,300/0/default.webp)
![Letter, [Hewlett Townsend Coles], at sea, to "My Dear Beloved Catherine," [Catherine Van Suydam Coles], n.p.](https://iiif-image.library.nd.edu/iiif/2/RareBooks%2Fcollections%2Fead_xml%2Fimages%2FMSN-EA_5022%2FMSN-EA_5022-01.1cvr.150/full/!300,300/0/default.webp)
![Letter, [Hewlett Townsend Coles], "Ship Liverpool's Boats towards St. Johns," to [Catherine Van Suydam Coles], n.p.](https://iiif-image.library.nd.edu/iiif/2/RareBooks%2Fcollections%2Fead_xml%2Fimages%2FMSN-EA_5022%2FMSN-EA_5022-02.1cvr.150/full/!300,300/0/default.webp)
![Letter, Hewlett T[ownsend] Coles, St. John's, Newfoundland, to "My Dear Catherine," [Catherine Van Suydam Coles], n.p.](https://iiif-image.library.nd.edu/iiif/2/RareBooks%2Fcollections%2Fead_xml%2Fimages%2FMSN-EA_5022%2FMSN-EA_5022-03.1cvr.150/full/!300,300/0/default.webp)