Name/Title
Letter from Ebenezer Irving to Sarah Mann IrvingEntry/Object ID
HHV 003.142Description
Letter from Ebenezer Irving to Sarah Mann IrvingSubject
Apologies for delayed replies, multiple visits to family, Theodore’s [2nd] marriage in Bay Ridge, quarantine ferry, foot of White Hall St., lots of family in attendance, steamboats, “Theodore’s Daughters”, service performed at Theodore’s former church, post-wedding “sojourn” at West Point, “cottage” folks (Irving sisters, “Aunties”??), Charlotte (“Charlie”) has been sick, “Willie” Irving (son of William) in Boston, “Washie” at Jamestown (CA), Ebenezer once inspected militia near Black Horse Tavern Staten IslandSubject Person/Organization
Ebenezer Irving (1776-1868), Sarah Mann Irving (1824-1913), Katrina Van Tassel Irving Williams (1845-1915), Pierre Paris Irving (1806-1878), Edgar Irving (1808-1873), Theodore Irving (1809-1880), Anna Duer Irving Routh (1830-1884), Frederic Randolph Routh (1828-1909), Washington Irving (1783-1859), Sarah Irving (1817-1900), Catharine Ann Irving (1816-1911), Sanders Irving (1813-1884), Julia Granger Irving (1822-1897), Fanny Irving Clark/Major(1839-?), Charlotte Van Wart Irving Grinnell (1824-1911), Washington Ebenezer Irving (1822-1894), William Irving (1847-1893), Elizabeth Kip Irving Reese (1842-1876), Marie Louise Ketching Irving (1836?-1893?)Subject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
Sunnyside, Irvington, NY, Westchester County, New York, Port Richmond, NY, Staten Island, New Brighton, Brooklyn, NY, West Point, Jamestown, CA, Tuolumne County, CaliforniaCollection
Irving Manuscript CollectionLetter Details
Letter Date
Jul 16, 1857 - Jul 17, 1857Transcription
Transcription
[LETTER]
Sunny Side, Irvington, Westch’r. N.Y. July 16th 1857
My dear Sarah
I owe my dear little Kate, replies to her letters / of April 20 and June 15. I am not aware that I am similarly in= / debted to you, for your last is of earlier date than either of the above; / though Kate, in one of her letters says that you make such a [alusion]: I / must make my excuses to the little girl for the apparent neglect, / and shall endeavor to do so shortly. I shall offer absence from hom / as port of my apology, though that will be a lame excuse, for I / might almost as well plead that I had not my own particular pen / and ink stand at hand. As I have just said, I have been away / for six weeks from home _ Pierre, Edgar and Theodore and Pierre’s / daughter, Anna Routh, sent me kind and passing letters urging / me to make them visits, and I had made up my mind to gratify / them and myself and only waited for mild and pleasant weather; / the season has been so very cold and backward as materially to / interfere with my plans: I made out however at length to enter upon / them and returned but a few days since from a most delightful / sojourn among the relatives in Staten Island: the weather was not / all I could wish yet I highly enjoyed my rambles on the Island.
I passed a fortnight at Theodore’s near the village of Richmond, then / nearly as long at Pierres and after, quite as long at Fred’c Routh’s New Brighton
I did [^ not] see a great deal of Theodore while at his place for he was too / much occupied by parish duties, and his attentions at “Bay Ridge”. / His wedding took place at Bay Ridge on Wednesday June 24th last and / was a very pretty affair Your Uncle Washington, with Sisters Catharine and Sarah / came down from Sunny Side by an early train, and with Edgar and Amanda with / their little Mary and Sanders with his Julia all met at the quarantine / ferry foot of White Hall Street. I had gone up to the City on an arrange that / morning and joined them at noon at the ferry _ We took the boat to the / quarantine landing, where another steam boat was ready to take us across / the bay to Bay Ridge. At the Quarantine we were joined by Pierre’s and /
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Theodore’s daughters [^ and [??] Pierre] and on landing at Bay Ridge we found carriage / ready to take us to the little church where Theordore formerly officiated. / At the Church there was a considerable assembly of relatives and friends. / Theodore entered the pretty little church with Mrs Kitching the bride’s / mother on his arm followed by the bride on her father’s arm, [advancing] / immediately to the Chancel where the ceremony was forthwith per= / =formed by the Rev’d Mr Stone, a relative to Mr Ktiching’s beautiful / establishment where after a little while passed in the elegant / parlour, they were ushered into the dining room where a splendid / and profuse collation was in waiting; after giving all due [attention] / to this, those from Staten Island recrossed to the Quarantine and those / from Sunnyside and the City returned by the way of Brooklyn. Theodore / and the bride left at same time for a short sojourn at West Point.
Theodore and his wife found their way to his home near Richmond / village the latter part of last week and I presume are now settled down / as a pair of “old folkes”. Your sisters expected that they would have stopped / at the Cottage on there way from West Point for a day or two, but he found that his parish duties would not admit of their doing so; / they are to pass a few days with us [however?] shortly, probably the beginning / of next week. My dear Charlier has been much out of / health for some time past; she has been advised to try a change of / air, and with a hope of benefity she has been for some eight or ten / weeks with us at Sunny Side, and she is at length improving though / but slowly _ she was unable to be with the wedding party, / and Mary whose health is also delicate, remained home with / her
Little Kate expresses her wishes to make a visit /
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To SunnySide and calculates on being able to gratify them. / and offers to bring her brother Willie with her should he / came in from Boston: the cottage folks will of course be glad / to see both; thell her to drop us a line before hand that / we may know when to Expect her _ we have to manage / matters thus that we may be always ready to receive the / visits of relatives and [^ that] those visits may not interfere / with each other.
We have been gratified by the receipt of more / letters from your brother Washie at Jamestown, (Tuolumne / Country Calf’a) all of which gives us much satisfaction _ / he continues to go on well and writes in good / spirits.
My love to my dear little Kate _ I will / try to write to her shortly, and may give her some account / of my adventures on Staten Island in [search] of the “Black / Horse tavern” hear which, as Brigade Inspector, I inspected / a regiment of militia about fifty years ago.
Thine my dear sarah affectionately
Eben’r Irving
Mrs William Irving
No. 28 4 ½ Street
Washington
DC
[ENVELOPE]
Irvington
July 17
Mrs William Irving
No. 28 4 ½ Street
Washington
D.C.Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
EnglishOther Names and Numbers
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W 197 A-B
