Letter from Pierre Paris Irving to Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie
Entry/Object ID
HHV 003.206
Description
Letter from Pierre Paris Irving to Commander Mackenzie
Subject
Discussion of Mackenzie’s statement in Somers Mutiny trial, “Pirate’s Own Book”, “Englossian Society”
Subject Person/Organization
Pierre Paris Irving (1806-1878), Philip Spencer, Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (1803-1848)
Collection
Irving Manuscript Collection
Letter Details
Letter Date
1842
Transcription
Transcription
My Dear Mackenzie,
My delay in furnish = / ing you with the Statement desired, has not / been owing to neglect, but to the unaccounta - / ble absence of [?? Loring Borderard?] I take it / for granted he must have been absent from / home + that he has not received the sum - / mons. I greatly regret this, for he was / pofsefsed of many details which would have / confirmed the enclosed statement in the / most conclusively. The other young men / however are all well acquainted with / Spencer’s character, and if required would / speak very decidedly. Skinner has / heard him express the determination / of [securing?] a [pistle?], + Stanley is acquaint - ed with the fact of his having left “the Pi- / rate’s own Book” to the Englossian Society / with his autograph upon [alland] page.
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My own testimony [??-med] only be offer - / ed in relation to the general character / of the young man. The fact of his / having presented himself to me as a can - / didate for the [St?-y?] Communion [^ can] only / [exhibit] his duplicity when taken / in connection with [Bordward’s?]. /
Besides considering the confidential na - / ture which belongs to all interviews be - / tween a clergyman + his parishioners, + / moreover, the connexcion which is known / to exist between you + myself, I should / doubt very much the wisdom + proprie- / ty of my bing brought forward except / in case of the last necessity.
I am, My Dear Mackenzie
With the most sympathy + regard
Faithfully your friend
Pierre P Irving
Sunday morn’g
[END OF PAGE 2]
P.P. Irving
[ADDRESS]
Commander A. S. MacKenzie
U.S. Brig Somers.
[LABEL - ON SIDE]
[M. M K–?]
[??--??]
[D–d?]
[Rh–??]
