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Saratoga Springs. Aug. 1st 1852
My dear Kate,
I wrote a hasty line yesterday requesting you to send [the] ↑a↓ carriage to the station for the 8 OClock train on Monday evening. I still request it; but you must not be disappointed if I do not come on. I may be tempted to prolong my stay here a little as Alboni has arrived, and there is a talk of a concert. Should one be advertised for Monday or Tuesday Evening I shall remain to attend it, as I should hear her to more advantage here than at New York.
I continue to enjoy my sojourn here Yesterday an old friend arrived whom I have
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not seen for upwards of thirty years, and who had his wife with him (a Charlestown lady) with several of her relatives and friends, so that I found myself launched in a new and very pleasant circle. This is a wonderful rallying point for agreeable people from all parts of the Union
Judge Ulshoeffer expects the rest of his party on Tuesday. I find Henrietta is with them. They come on in company with Mrs Suydam (Anne Schermerhorn) and her mother.
I continue to take the waters; which I trust will clear me of all bilious tendencies for the rest of the year.
I am glad to find Oscar and Eliza
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are with you. I feel easy, therefore, as you will have cheerful company: the house keeping will be attended to and my horses will have exercise.
What an awful affair this is of the Henry Clay. It is well it did not occur in our neighborhood. I grieve to think of the sad affliction into which poor Mrs Downing is plunged; whom lately I met at the Hamiltons, so full of gaiety and happiness. Give my love to your father, to Eliza Oscar and all enquiring friends
Your affectionate uncle
Washington Irving
Miss Kate Irving
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Marisa CalderioLanguage
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Washington Irving. Letters. Volume IV, 1846-1859. Aderman, Ralph M., Kleinfield, Herbert L. and Jenifer S. Banks. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982, pp. 327-328.
