Name/Title
Letter from Washington Irving to Monsieur ColesEntry/Object ID
HHV 003.39Description
Letter from Washington Irving to Monsieur ColesSubject
Steamboats, travel, American LegationSubject Person/Organization
Washington Irving (1783-1859), Thomas Wentworth Storrow (1779-1862), Monsieur ColesSubject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
New York, Paris, France, Bordeaux, France, Versailles, France, Madrid, SpainCollection
Irving Manuscript CollectionTranscription
Transcription
Bordeaux, Feb’y 8th 1820.
My dear Sir,
I have written to our young [Bar-??-s] in New / York to have the drawings, measurements +c. taken and forwarded for you to the care of Mr. T W. Storrow, Rue de / faubourg [Poisonniere?] Paris, with whom you can settle / for any expense that may accrue.
I don’t like to be [one will] & our ??] and / discourage men unnecery unnecessarily, for I must mitig / mitigate something of what I have said on the subject / of steamboats. There happens to be new in Bordeaux a / young gentlemen who is concerned in the [montreal?] / steam ferry boat at New York about which I have / written, & in what one of my brothers is largely interested / He tells me that it was for some time [unexce?]-ptable / stock in consequence of the blunders of made in construct - / ing boats to owing to inexperience, but that they can / now construct them for a fourth the original expense / and that the stock is very productive. It requires / however a great deal of travelling to make a steam /
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Ferry boat profitable, and much will depend upon the / person employed in managing the boats +c. -
I leave Bordeaux the day after tomorrow for mad / Madrid where I shall probably pafs some weeks / & then into other parts of Spain. A letter addrefsed to / me at the American Legation Madrid will find me / I write in great haste, Present my kind regards to Mr & Mrs / [Greathed] & to the [Keaneys] and believe me
Very truly yours
Washington Irving
[B] Coles by
P.s. Have the goodness to sned the enclosed to Keaney / I have lost his addrefs.
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à Monsiuer
[M–??] Coles
17 Rue S. Martin
a Versailles
[POSTMARK]
Ɣ 19
[POSTAGE STAMP 1 - black ink, circle]
12
FEV
1820
[POSTAGE STAMP 2 - black ink]
32
BORDEAUX
[POSTAGE STAMP 3 - black ink]
[illegible]Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
EnglishOther Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
Number Type
Former NumberOther Number
W 11
