Name/Title
Letter from Catharine Irving to Katrina Irving WilliamsEntry/Object ID
HHV 003.670Description
Letter from Catharine Irving to Katrina Irving WilliamsSubject
Written from Irvington, NY, health, changing winter quarters, family and social news, plumbing, Porter weddingSubject Person/Organization
Catharine Ann Irving (1816-1911), Katrina Van Tassel Irving Williams (1845-1915), Frederic Coffin Williams (1846-1897), Charlotte Van Wart Irving Grinnell (1824-1911), Sarah Jackson Stone Grinnell (1855-1941), Edwin Morgan Grinnell (1849-1935), Julia Tunis Irving (1818-1861), Fanny Irving Clark/Major(1839-?)Subject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
New York, Bridgeport, CT, Cooperstown, NY, Geneva, NYCollection
Irving Manuscript CollectionTranscription
Transcription
Irvington-on-Hudson
August 2d
My dear Kate
I was very glad / to get your letter of the 28th / August [^ July] and to hear that your / husband was so much better / I had thought of you very / often and wanted very much / to hear and sometimes thought / I would write to you, but I am / very bad about letter writing / now-a-days and I am very / apt to put it off. I was sorry / not to have been able to get to / see you that day before you
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Left the city, but I was not / well the latter part of the time / I was in town and just then / the weather was so intensely hot / I did not dare to venture out, / your Aunt Charlotte who is now / with us says that Sallie Grinnell / wrote to you some time ago / about that room you had in / Madison Ave. but she has / received no answer, perhaps / she had not the right address, / she and Morgan are so anxious / that we should [^ change] our winter / quarters that they are trying to / look out for us, and she wrote / to ask you more particularly /
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About the house. Morgan / went there last week and saw / the room and thought ut very / nice, but found the dining / room was in the basement / which would five us two / flights of stairs to go up and / down three times a day and / she would want us to take / then room from the 1st October / which we could not do, so we / are still afloat for the winter / but we will [not] to go back to the / Hoffman’s unless there is some- / thing done about the plumbing / of the house which we began / to think was defective, but it
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Is a difficult thing for us to / change, there are so many things / we want which we have been / accustomed to and which we / feel necessary to our comfort, / of course we could find it if we / could afford to pay a high / price but as we cannot we / must take the best we can get. / Your Aunt Julia and Aunt Charlotte / are both with us now, and / Morgan is generally here at / night from Monday until Friday / when he goes to his family at / Bridgeport, he takes his holiday / in that was from Friday afternoon / until Monday as it is too far
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For him to go and come every / day. I am afraid I have very / little news to five you, Fanny / Major came out in June to spend / three months and returns again [^ in] / August, she has been most of the / time in Cooperstown and Geneva. / I am sorry you could not have / gone to the Porter wedding, it / must have been a grand affair / and I have no doubt was very / pretty. Give my kind remembrances / to Mr Williams who I hope will / continue to improve, and with / much love from all four Aunts / to yourself and your little, big / girls I am always your affectionate
Aunt Kate
[ENVELOPE]
Mrs Fred Williams
22 Oakland Place
Bufffalo
N.Y.
[POSTAGE STAMP - black ink, circle]
IRVINGTON
AUG 3
10 AM
[????]
N.Y.Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
EnglishOther Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
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Former NumberOther Number
W 3325 A a-bCondition
Notes
Remarks: a. Fold marks across center of first set of pages and single page.
b. Stamp in upper right corner; opening tear marks on left side of envelope; surface dirt and staining.Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Katrina Van Tassel Irving Williams (1845-1915)Notes
RecipientGeneral Notes
Note Type
StorageNoteNote
Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Union Church, Storage, Shelf 31CNote Type
DepartmentNote
Library
