Name/Title
Letter from Catharine Irving to Katrina Irving WilliamsEntry/Object ID
HHV 003.669Description
Letter from Catharine Irving to Katrina Irving WilliamsSubject
Illness, family and social news, planning to go to Sunnyside in May, death of Robert Mc LindenSubject Person/Organization
Catharine Ann Irving (1816-1911), Katrina Van Tassel Irving Williams (1845-1915), Edwin Morgan Grinnell (1849-1935), Irving Williams (1872-1930), Julia Tunis Irving (1818-1861), Sarah Irving (1817-1900), Kate Storrow Bacon, Julia Bowdoin, Robert McLinden, Charlotte Van Wart Irving Grinnell (1824-1911), Fanny Irving Clark/Major(1839-?)Subject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
New York, Flushing, NY, Washington, DC, Central ParkCollection
Irving Manuscript CollectionTranscription
Transcription
28 West 22d St.
April 18th
My dear Kate
I have not doubt you / begin to think I never intend to / answer your letter of the 15th of March / more than a month ago, I have thought / of it a great many times but letter / [^ writing] has become rather hard work for me / and I know I let little things prevent / me, one thing my eyes are not at all / strong and I find looking on the white / paper tires them very much. You suggested / in your letter that I should get Morgan / Grinnell to write to you and I wonder / whether he ever did, he happened to / come in soon after I received your / letter and I gave him your message / and to my surprise he said at once
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Why yes, I will write to Kate and took / down your addrefs, but I have never / thought of it since when I would see / him to ask him if he ever did it, I / should be rather surprised if he did / for he never writes a letter if he can / help and when he does it is about half / a dozen lines and very unsatisfactory. / one of his little girls has been very ill / lately with membraneous croup and all / the other children were sent to her Mother’s / for fear of contagion but I i am happy / to say she is quite well now and the / other children all back at home. You / know they are living now in New York / in 63rd St. it is quite a journey from / here but much easier than going down / to Flushing where they lived before, they / are near the Park which is very nice / for the children. We were so glad to / see your son Irving, it is hard to / realize that you have so old a child
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And I am so glad to hear that your / sons are both doing so well and I / hope they will be a great comfort to / your, the girls too must have grown / very much since I saw them in Washington / Your Aunt Julia keeps very well, she says / she misses us very much, and I dare / say she does but she has had some / of her nieces with her nearly all the / winter, she has not Mrs Pierson and / Mrs Porter both with her and the last / of this month she will have her cousin / Mrs Winthrop and her daughter so that / she will not be alone. We find this a very convenient situation for us, it / is nera all the principal stores and / near the churches, and very near to out / cousins the Van Wart’s who we see almost / every day and we have had a very / pleasant winter, your Aunt Sarah has / been better than she was the last two
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Winters that we were in Washington, / I sometimes thought the climate there / did not agree with her. Fanny Major / has been abroad for the last year and / I think will remain there another. / Kate Bacon too went abroad last year / and is to sail for home on the 21st of / May, she has not been at all well but / I believe is better now. Julia Bowdoin / gave a “family tea” this winter and we / met a good many of the family who we / had never seen before and it was very / pleasant.
We expect to go up home about / the middle of May but you will be sorry / to hear that we have lost our good old / faithful Robert, he died the 1st of Dec. but he / had been failing for more than a year, we / have taken one of his sons in his place, but / we shall miss our good Robert. I do not think / I have any family news to interest you, I expect / your Aunt Charlotte will spend her summer with / us as she has the last two years. Remember / me kindly to your Mother if she is with you / and to your husband + Children
Ever your affectionate Aunt Kate IrvingTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
EnglishOther Names and Numbers
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W 3324 A-BCondition
Notes
Remarks: a. Matching vertically curved tear at top of first and third pages of writing; surface dirt and staining.
b. Large chip at upper right corner on front side; surface dirt and staining.Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Katrina Van Tassel Irving Williams (1845-1915)Notes
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StorageNoteNote
Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Union Church, Storage, Shelf 31CNote Type
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Library
