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19 Bible House N. York
Monday morning Dec’r 18. 1854
My dear Sarah
I wrote top you some ten or twelve / days since in reply to yours of th 17th of last month. My / letter apprised you that your wishes for the removal of / Willie’s remains from Washington, to our family plot in / the “Tarrytown Cemetery” adjoining [^ the ??] Sleepy Hollow Church / had been anticipated, and that they now rest near those / of his Grandfather and Grandmother Irving’s, and those of his good / mother and little sisters; the account was considerably in detail / as you desired. I embraced the occasion / to remind you of the papers relating to the claim that Willie / laid before Congress at their last session, and urged their / immediate remission to Col. Morgan if they were still in your / hands: I presume you have sent them, but as I am not aware / of it, and the Colonel in a letter to Charlotte, written a fortnight / or so since, repeats his wishes that he might receive them / promptly, and his intention to urge the application through, / I thought I might as well remind you again. The claim / might possibly have been got through at the last session, had it been / presented early, but as the bills that embrace such matters are / usually deferred until towards the close, Willie [though] there was / not need of haste; in that instance however it happened otherwise / and Willie, of course, found himself too late. You are perhaps aware that / the Col. attempted to introduce the claim by way of amendment to / one of the bills, but could not succeed. Col. M. will do his best / in the matter and has strong hopes of carrying it through _ Doctor / Blake in his replies to Edgar says that whatever he can do in the
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Matter shall he cheerfully done. As the present is the short / session, no time should be lost. All the work before Congress / must get through in nine or ten weeks or remain unfinished. /
You are aware I believe that Theodore for the last / twelve months or more has been preparing to enter the Ministry. / I received letters the latter part of last week from him and Pierre / informing me that his ordination would take place the nest / Sunday (yesterday) at the CHirch of “The Annunciation” Rev’d Dr. Seabury’s.
THe arrangement was not quite such as the brothers wished and / would be inconvenient to several interested _ Doct’t Tyng who examined / was to present Theodore to the Bishop, could not leave his congregation; / nor could Pierre leave his at New Brighton to preach the sermon on the occasion / as Theo. desired, but it seemed that it could not be altered. As I wished / to be present at the time, I came from Sunny side, on Saturday, / and calling at the Bible House to learn something definite from your / brothers as to the ceremony, I found that they had just effected a change: / the ordination is deferred until Wednesday nest, then to take place at / “The Church of the s?? Incarnation” corner of 28th Street and Madison Av= / a sort of off shoot from “Grace Church”. This arrangement is more agreeable / to the parties immediately interested and will allow of a larger attendance / of friends who could not well otherwise be present _ Doct’r Tyng will present / Theofore and Pierre preach the Sermon Doct’r Seabury and his church are [“??”] Dr Tyng and St George are [dubbed] “low”, Gracead [^ and Incarnation are] about medium, and so / is Pierre, but Theo. I think is as low as Dr. T. I trust however that they all / will do their master’s work faithfully and sucessfully.
We have another snow storm on us which began about / noon yesterday, it is however light and cannot be fairly called / a storm. I purpose calling on your sister, Mary I believe you call her, /
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To [??-ain?] if she has any late letters from you, and to ask if she knows / how your eyes fare, for you say nothing in your letters to me about / the complaint that affected them some little time since _ from / your silence on the subject I infer that you are nearly if not entirely / rid of it. Before I left home I asked Sarah whether little Kate / was calculating on a holiday visit to her Aunt Jencks, but it seems / that she has said nothing about it _ I shall ascertain whether it / be [^ still] Mrs. Jenck’s wish that she should spend her holiday in 14th Street, / and if it be the case I will bring her down the latter part of this / week. I add as usual my best respects to your good / Mother and my blessing to Willie and little Frank Wallace, I / wish it [were] [worth?] “ [??] [plum?]” to each
Thine my dear Sarah affectionately
Mrs William Irving
At 55 Hancock Street
Boston. Mass’sTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
