“I have sent you my minature, I hope that you will wear it with as much pleaseur as I doo wereing your hiar [hair] which you sent me,” wrote Reuben Simon Krijn in 1818 from Amsterdam to his half-sister Sarah Judith Judah Joseph in South Carolina. Krijn had been born in Philadelphia and moved to Holland as a young man. His letter to Sarah expressed both his wish to see her again and a litany of obligations that kept him from doing so. In his absence, he conveys his affection and longing in the gift of a miniature. “I was quite anxious to send one for my other 2 dear sisters but the limner asks such an extravagant price that I could not think of giving it, you must be satisfied with this untill I can get 2 more . . . .”