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From Mrs. Saunders Irving
To Grandmother / Champion
Cincinnati, June 20
Monday. 1853
My dear Sarah,
It is I believe / never too late to fulfill a / good promise, when you / left New York I certainly in - . tended writing to you very / soon, but not knowing / how to address a letter to / you I have delayed; but I / will not take up all my / time + paper with excuses, / Since I came here I have / made the acquaintance of / a great friend of yourself + / Will’s, Mrs. Browning; she / is boarding in the house / next the one we are in + / we often have little talks / out of our respective windows / as there is a very narrow / alley running between the / houses. She gives me very / pleasant accounts of you /
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All; that the children are / lovely + that the house could / scarcely get on without you. / I trust [^ Will] will be undisturbed / in his present berth, Uncle / Washington having interested / himself with the present / administration to keep Will / in, will of course have / great weight, still one, can / never fel certain in these / political places, even where / a person gives satisfaction / as Will has done, still / they take hold of the slight - / est thing. I was sure you / would like Washington I / was very find of it during / the few years we were / there, I should find it / very much changed however, / so many of my old / friends have died or / gone away. We have made / two moves since I saw / you, one to Po’keepsie /
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Where we spect Last winter / + in March we came out to / this Western world such / is an Engineer’s life, always / moving + never sure of a / living. We were in hopes of / living in Covington which / is just accross the Ohio river / from this place as Brooklyn / is form New York, Sanders / work is there entirely, but / we can find nothing in the / way of comfortable lodgings, /
So made up our minds / to live in Cincinnati, / where we stay at a Mrs / Hamilton’s, + are very com- / fortable. We like Cincin- / nati very much + feel / quite at home; the peo- / ple are kind, + it is the / busiest place you ever / saw. The climate is / very like that of Wash- / ington, + the heat during /
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This month has been in- / tense, + I suppose we shall / have no cool days until / October, I dread it, partic- / ularly for Sanders, he / has to walk about 8 miles / a day, besides standing / in the Sun all day, / this far however he / has been well. Was not / the death of poor Jane / very sad, I feel so sorry / for Theodore + his / children, he has been at / the Cottage for some / time past, but on the 23d / goes to Geneva _ I presume / Father keeps you informed / of all the doings of the / family, he seems to have / enjoyed his visit to Edgars / very much, going all about. / Sanders is so very busy that / I do all his correspondence / he joins me in love to Will, the / children + yourself. Yours +c +c Jula G. IrvingTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
