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Letter from Ebenezer Irving to William IrvingEntry/Object ID
HHV 003.541Subject
Arrival of President Andrew Jackson in Manhattan, parade, Washington Irving invited to visit Middletown, CT; housecleaning, family news, hopes for Will's success in ChinaSubject Person/Organization
Ebenezer Irving (1776-1868), William Irving (1811-1854), President Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), Washington Irving (1783-1859), James Monroe (1758-1831), Samuel Russell, James Richard Dodge (1795-1880), William Dodge, Theodore F. H. Romeyn (?-1833), Helen Dodge Irving (1802-1885), Catherine Irving Paris (1774-1849), [John] Daniel Paris (1773-1851), Maria Vandenburgh, Margaret Vandenburg, Edgar Irving (1808-1873), Sanders Irving (1813-1884), Sarah Sanders Paris Storrow (1813-1885), Pierre Paris Irving (1806-1878), Anna Duer Irving (1807-1874), Gabriel Furman Irving (1807-1845), Eliza Dodge Romeyn Irving (1801-1887)Subject Place
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Tarrytown, NY, Canton, ChinaCollection
Irving Manuscript CollectionTranscription
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The Ship Morrison
New York June 14, 1833
My dear Wiiliam
I received you few lines at the 8th instant from Sandy Hook on board the Clematis three days after they were written and was much gratified by their tenor. Your promise of embracing any chance opportunity during your voyage of dropping us a line was most welcomly received for the idea that we may not reasonably expect to hear from you a long, long while is not agreeable. I shall examine the marine detail of the newspapers now with more scrutiny than ever. Your Uncle Washington and your brothers have seen more of Mr. Russell since you sailed and are more pleased with him than before, and I trust you will have found the partners in Canton as much to your liking. I have little doubt that it will be the case if you make your interest and welfare your governing principles, for both cannot but be promoted by integrity, diligence and gentlemanly conduct. You are launched, my dear Willie, on a distant, but active and promising treater where we trust your talents will be turned to prompt and good account and enable you ere long to assist in building up the fortunes and extending the reputation of the family. All our friends who are aware of your departure think very favorably of the enterprise, and ai pray heaven it may succeed to our utmost wishes.
The visit of our old president, Andrew Jackson, has occasioned exciting times in this good city of Gotham; his reception was a fine one. The approach to the city through I think not equal in brilliancy to Lafayette’s yet did not fall greatly short of it. The crowd on the Battery and through Broadway was immense and the cheering the waving of handkerchiefs was incessant. The old general was on horseback with his hat in his hand bowing gracefully on all sides. If you saw and have any recollection of the reception of President Monroe when he visited New York, you will have a good idea of the scene, for the procession through Broadway particularly, was very similar. The old general has certainly been very handsomely received and as far as I can learn is highly gratified [that]all now seem to be good Jacksonians.
Deputations are coming in from towns and villages in every direction inviting a visit. One from Middletown in Connecticut came to Mr. Russell who applied to your Uncle Washinton to present them to the president and it was gratifying to your uncle to have the opportunity of obliging him. Mr. Russell invited your uncle very cordially to pay him a visit at Middletown where I understand he has a splendid residence near your old quarters in Middletown erected and complete since you played the soldier boy there.
We have lately heard from your cousin James R. dodge and learned that poor Romey;n has finished his career. He died about a fortnight since. From the accounts we had before you sailed, the hope he indulged of getting back to his father’s before he should close his eyes was delusive. The intelligence was of course expected. The advice comes in a letter from James R. D. to his Uncle William Dodge. He mentions that it is the intention of Mrs. Romeyn and Helen to come on shortly and that he and his wife will accompany then.
Your Aunt Paris’ health, to my great comfort, continues to improve and she is able to take some short rides. Your Uncle Paris made his appearance in my bedroom rather unexpectedly the morning after you sailed (Sunday). I had thought him busily engaged in planning a village at his falls (union) of the Saranac. It seems, however, the present time was not propitious for that purpose and he has therefore deferred putting the project into effect for a while. I have little doubt but that the property will prover valuable. Maria Vandenburgh and her elder sister Margaret are in town. They are planning on boarding in our old quarters at Tarrytown and Edgar is to escort them to the lace tomorrow morning . Maria’s company will no doubt be very acceptable to your cousin Sara Paris.
By this ship the Morrison we send a small box which Sanders says is from Mr. Frost, also a parcel containing the books I had bound for your viz. Alhambra, two volumes, Conquest of Granada, two volumes, Life and Voyages of Columbus, two volumes and The Companions of Columbus, one volume, also a pair of boots you left to be repaired. Your will bear in mind to look around well and let us know whether good opportunity offers either at Canton, Manila or elsewhere for your brother Sanders. We are all well at home and all are busily employed in housecleaning. I shall be well pleased when the operation is fairly over. Sanders has just received a few lines from Pierre which left him and Anna and their little ones well. Your cousin Gabriel and his wife I understand have just arrived rom Charleston. The trip is said to have been of service to him.
Yours my dear Willie truly and affectionately
Eben. IrvingTranscriber
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Remarks: Large horizontal tear through all four pages near upper left corner (missing words); large chip below middle left center; ink faded but legible.Relationships
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William Irving (1811-1854)Notes
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