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Nevis 8th October [inserted: November] 43
I received dear Alex Yours of the 9th / October Yesterday only a month after date; and to / think of You really installed, the responsible person, / writing Your own despatches, going all alone to dine / with grandees + diplomats, I wish I could see you / once after You were dressed for these occasions, + / most of all would I like to talk them over when You / come home fresh, we all hope You will cultivate / mustachios, have You tried them Yet. If Jasper / Livingston is to live with You, it is necessary he should / be amiable + gentlemanly, Your lumbering along / to the Escurial in the that dilatory style, was indeed a / contrast to our expeditious modes of travelling, but You / must have enjoyed the journey much more than if You / had dashed through in rail car __ You will have / got no letter from here by the last steamer, mine / which was intended for that, is somewhere at the / mercy of the winds with some Intelligencers in a Havre / packet, If you would have Yr. Intelligencers by steamers / speak, Pa determined for the packet. Your letter / found us reduced to the very family proper, busy / keeping out our first snow storm, election day too, / for which Pa had been making speeches for sometime, / but as it [^ was] not our grand election we were not so / very much excited, next Year You can help us elect / the President Our last guests were George Schuyler / and Mary Ann Lee, You know the latter requires / considerable exertion, so we manage to keep on the /
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Go during the day she spent here, she was kind / and indifferent as ever, only excited by the view / I have been busy trying to cure my bruises from my / fall at [Tinturn?], I find that keeping the sofa / + limping round is not so very hard, but that / time pafses very quickly if You are only busy how - / ever monotonous the life may be. Friday Nothing / new to relate, but that our party has decreased still / more, + Ma + I are left [^ to] eat, sleep + talk together. Uncle / Tom sent his man up to get two grape vines for the / new grapery he has just finished, and with him / a letter saying that Aunt Fan had a bad cold, / As Uncle has to go down [^to] town tomorrow for the first / Yorkino dinner [G/Yeccy?] determined to go there and / stay with her, + this morning drove down first leaving / Pa at the dock, on his way to the City, we have enga - / ged the parson to dine with us on Sunday, but on / Monday Ma + I follow after, [G/Yeccy?] + I to make a / visit to Aunt Rebecca Ma at her fathers. George / Schuyler wrote to Pa the other day detailing the busi - / ness plans, the Eureka is very fast, he is up at / Albany to meet the director of the Western Railroad, / and arrange the junction with the Housatonic / but I must give you a little news to sleep upon, from this / afternoon’s paper, “married P. Kemble Paulding to Elisabeth / daughter of [J?] Green, Pearson” on Wednesday 8th, it / seems as if people had taken violently to matrimony / since Yr absence, each winter new cases, + all among / Your particulars, I hear no report about the Angelico / [sembiante?]” but doubtless she will follow suit. You / did not tell us if You really saw the [Rosan?] or not, those Spanish /
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Joiles are so full of interest _ don’t stay late enough in / Madrid next spring to get the fever again, it is hot there / early in the season. Monday eve’g 12th Our little tête a / tête party was broken in upon last evening by G.L. / S. dropping in upon us at an unexpected hour. / he had some business with the Agent of the rail / road opposite, found him on board his steamboat, / + got him to land him here, he had a great deal / to tell us about Albany business. 2 things in New / York. Aunt + Robert were at the Pearson’s wedding /which was conducted very quietly, Dewey tied the / Knot, she looked very pretty, I should like to have / seen her, and after a short visit at this Aunts / Mrs. Parrott’s, she is to take charge of the house [page torn] / =hold of that [crusty?] father in law, Today we / had our parson + his daughter to dine with us, / after when we went to [Kirk?] + G.L.S. to town. / Ellen Sinclair is growing up quite pretty, [Tony?] fat / + comportable roared out out the Psalm like a good / fellow. Paulding is as constant to the church as ever / What a pity he had not been constant some where else / We have had to take a few naps this evening, in con - / sequence of the great excitement of the day, the wind / has howled from the no west, we are now pretty lively / Ma reading Webster’s speech at a great meeting in / Nov’r [+ / I?] button otherwise agreeably employed. I will / send Your the speech [??] [??] _
Sunday eve’g Nov’r / 19th 12 Cottage Place My dear Alex as you see / the usual fate of My letters has followed this one / and here it is weeks after the time to go lagging / behind in one of the packets. [Geccy?] despatched
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By the steamer, she + I found our way to town / the beginning of this week, Juliette is here + / we have a merry time in our close quarters, Julia / Boggs near at hand is as happy as possible the / two little Loundeses have been with her for a / week or two, their Mother is out of health this /
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Winter + she is to stay with her mother at the / north, the family at Leonard St. has just come to / town, I have seen none of them but Rebecca / Mr Livingston. We are going the usual round of / the tea parties tomorrow night at Mrs. Millers / Wednesday Sarah Mones, Thursday Mrs. Oakey / Oakey is gone to England _ George stopt for us + / took us to near Mr [Furnefs], he gave us a good / sermon + delicious music, Pa was wanted /
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In a hurry to attend to some business / + G.L.S. drove out to Fordham to / look for Mama They had left [here?] + he [^ is] expected in town tomorrow. / Ma will probably stay at Aunt Fans / we go home this week by the way of / Fordham, I feel remarkably sleepy / from several walks in the wind + two / or three sermons __ Good night
Make the most of your / time, + think always of / yr sister
MariaTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
