Title
Letter from Albertus Van Raalte to Christina de Moen Van Raalte
Files
Description
A letter of Albertus C. Van Raalte to his wife, Christina de Moen Van Raalte, in which he reports his visit to the Black River area where he spent time with the Rev. and Mrs. George N. Smith. He is now with Judge Kellogg and his wife in Allegan. He plans to go to Grand Haven tomorrow, then to Kalamazoo and return to Detroit. He appreciates the letters Mrs. Van Raalte forwarded from the Rev. Isaac N. Wyckoff and Theodore Romeyn. V.R. now says that Michigan attracts him as a place for settlement more than Wisconsin.
Date
1-13-1847
City
Allegan, Michigan
Source
Unknown
Recommended Citation
Van Raalte, Albertus C., "Letter from Albertus Van Raalte to Christina de Moen Van Raalte" (1847). Van Raalte Papers: 1840-1849. 257.
https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/257
Notes
In Dutch; translated in From Heart to Heart Letters from the Rev. Albertus Christiaan Van Raalte to His Wife, Christina Johanna Van Raalte-De Moen, 1836-1847, edited by Leonard Sweetman, pp. 36-39 and 69-71.
Description of the document by Dr. Elton J. Bruins.
About the collection:
Elton J. Bruins, long-time professor in the Department of Religion at Hope College, spent years collecting documents by and about Albertus C. Van Raalte, founder of Holland, Michigan and early patron of Hope College. Documents were gathered from dozens of public and private collections, making a nearly exhaustive collection of Van Raalte's writings and reflections. It is these documents that make up the "Van Raalte Papers."
Digitizing the Van Raalte papers was supported by the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York. The project was done in partnership with Heritage Hall at Calvin University, which also digitized its Van Raalte collections.