Name/Title
Letter from Pierre Paris Irving to Harriet MackenzieEntry/Object ID
HHV 003.211Description
Letter from Pierre Paris Irving to Harriet MackenzieSubject
“Great family sorrow”, death of brother Alexander Slidell Mackenzie IISubject Person/Organization
Pierre Paris Irving (1806-1878), Harriet Duer Slidell, Catherine Alexander Robinson Mackenzie, Harriet Robinson Irving (1835-1906)Subject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
New BrightonCollection
Irving Manuscript CollectionTranscription
Transcription
My dear Harriet:
My daughter Hattie / has just asked me to address a letter / wh. She has been writing to you: And / while doing so, I can’t resist the hearts / prompting which led me to add a / little line for myself. Simply to give / expression to the profound + affectionate / feeling of sympathy with which I have / read of your great family sorrow.
It requires but small habit of con - / sideration to enable me in some small / measure to enter into [^ the] circumstances / which make this sorrow so great: es - / pecially am reminded of your young / brother’s [first?brith?] promise which had / made him so widely known + respected / and of his most genial + loveable na - / ture which had given him such a / warm place in the hearts of my
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Own sons + daughters
I have thought much too of / your mother’s great grief, + of your Aunt / Kitty: [?? ??] : + of the admirable / brother yet spared to you : And it has / been a sad satisfaction to all of us / at home now to remember you all at / our daily [??] [for?] [s–?] blessings on / all dear to us.
May that grace + blessing [ be?] upon / each one of you, my dear girl.
Your most affectionately
P.P. Irving
Miss Mackenzie
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[LABEL - pencil]
Mr Irving
New Brighton
Aug 21 - 67Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
EnglishOther Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
Number Type
Former NumberOther Number
W 919
