Letter to Isabella Tod Stewart from Bedford, New York
correspondent
David Tod
(Scottish, 1746 - 1827)
Date5 September 1823
Place MadeBedford, New York, United States, North America
MediumInk on paper
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.008856
eMuseum ID726011
EmbARK ObjectID34561
TMS Source ID18020
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept this letter from her great-grandfather David Tod to her paternal grandmother (and namesake) Isabella Tod Stewart. In it, he describes how many miles he's traveled to visit family in upstate New York and Pennsylvania (1,170)--his home was in Connecticut. After he reports on the family news and how many shirts and stockings he has to endure the winter, he signs off as 'your affectionate father." Later in his life, David Tod moved to his daughter's farm in Jamaica, New York, where he died in 1827.
BibliographyNotesDiana Seave Greenwald, "The Original Isabella Stewart," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 4 May 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/original-isabella-stewart
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), p.23, fig. 6.
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), p.23, fig. 6.
