Transcription
For
[ADDRESSED]
Revd. William Harness
King Street
Portman Square
[POSTMARKED]
7 o’Cloc[k] 26 JU 1822 N. T
[DOCKETED]
Washington Irving.
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My dear Harness,
I arrived in town early this morning, having posted all night[.] of course I am rather fagged. I should like to have a gossip with you, but you live so far off & I am so lame & hurried, that I cannot make the expedition [at] with the uncertainty of finding you at home. Why cannot you call & breakfast with me tomorrow morning. I
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generally breakfast before nine; but will keep back my breakfast tomorrow morning until ten at a venture–so that you may come either by or before that hour as may best suit your conveniences.
Yours truly
Washington Irving
Maddox Street
Wednesday. 26 June.
[END OF PAGE 3]Transcriber
Marisa CalderioLanguage
EnglishNotes
Washington Irving. Letters. Volume I, 1802-1823. Aderman, Ralph M., Kleinfield, Herbert L. and Jenifer S. Banks. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1978, p. 685.
