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Letter from Ebenezer Irving to Katrina IrvingEntry/Object ID
HHV 003.583Description
Letter from Ebenezer Irving to Katrina IrvingSubject
Will be Katrina’s last year at school, death of Mr. Storrow (cousins), disaster of the “Great Eastern” steamship, Irving Van Wart and Irving Grinnell narrowly escaped injury, Irving Grinnell trip to Europe, Charlotte with Willie at Sunnyside recovering health, Sanders and wife Julia at Sunny side, Sanders health has been “indifferent”, doctors, tried a “water cure” at Clifton SpringsSubject Person/Organization
Ebenezer Irving (1776-1868), Katrina Van Tassel Irving Williams (1845-1915), Thomas Wentworth Storrow (1779-1862), Irving Grinnell (1839-1921), Irving Van Wart (1808-1896), Charlotte Van Wart Irving Grinnell (1824-1911), Willie Grinnell, Sanders Irving (1813-1884), Julia Granger Irving (1822-1897)Subject Place
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Sunnyside, Cayuga Lake, New York, Ingleside, NY, Canandaigua, NY, Canandaigua Lake, Clifton Springs, NYCollection
Irving Manuscript CollectionTranscription
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Sunny Side, Irvington, Westch’r
County N.Y. Nov. 8. 1861.
Miss Katrina Irving
Academy of the Visitation
Georgetown D.C.
My dear Katrina
As usual of late, I am behind / hand with my correspondence, for I have not / yet acknowledged the receipt of your two / last letters, and as the last one bears the / date of Oct’r 20th and came to hand on the 22nd / the delay would appear almost inexcusable, but / as the old saw says, “better late than never” I will / drop all excuses and “take my pen in hand”.
I ought to have written sooner to day how / much I was pleased with your two last, the / last especially, both with the matter and the / manner.
As you say that the present is / to be your last year at school. I am glad that / you are determined to make the most of it.
Changes are still from time to time taking / place among our friends _ you may have observed / by the daily papers, that your cousins the Storrows /
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Have recently lost their husband and father. / Mr Storrow had been suffering for some time / from an attack of paralysis, his death therefore / was not unexpected, yet the family were / hardly prepared for the short attack that ended / his life, he was seriously ill but a day or tow.
Your cousin Irving Grinnell reached home the / day before yesterday from his jaunt to Europe, / in good health and thankful I presume that he is / safe here. You have no doubt read the account / of the serious disaster that occurred to the “Great Eastern” / [^Steam Ship] on her late voyage to New York. Your cousins / Irving Grinnell and Irving Van Wart were among her / passengers and you have seen by the accounts in / the papers, how very near they came to "going to / Davy Jones” Your cousin Charlotte Grinnell with / her youngest little boy, Willie, have passed a / few weeks with us and left us only a day / or two since for their home on the Cayuga lake. Your Aunt had been for some time on very /
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Feeble health, and little Willie ehn he / started on this jaunt had barely recovered / from an attack of measles; but we / have returned them both to Ingleside / with improved health. Your Uncle / Sanders I. and his wife Julia G. have / also been at Sunny Side for the last / three weeks or so and were about to / leave us today for their home in / Canandaigua, but they defer their / departure, a severe head ache having / attacked Sanders. Sanders’ health has / been very indifferent for some time past, / what his ailings are I do not certainly / know, only that he has been in the / hands of the doctors for the greater part / of the summer and Autumn, who as the sage / Lancelot [Gobbs] would say have been “trying /
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Conclusions upon him” a part of / the time he was at a [^ new] water cure establishment / at “Clifton Springs”, on the upper part of / Canandaigua Lake, with but very moderate / benefit: finding himself a little stronger, he thought / that he would try a visit to Sunnyside, he / reached here safely and the visit to the old / homestead, I think will prove superior to all / the “Water cures” and all the manip-??] / manipulation of the [Steam?] doctors
I believe I must end my letter in your / style and say “I must now close”.
[ensuring?] you that I am very sincerely
Yours
Ebn’r IrvingTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
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Remarks: Light staining.Relationships
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Katrina Van Tassel Irving Williams (1845-1915)Notes
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Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Union Church, Storage, Shelf 31CNote Type
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