Name/Title
Letter from William Irving to Washington IrvingEntry/Object ID
HHV 003.134Description
Letter from William Irving to Washington IrvingSubject
Travels in Italy, Europe, credit of $1000 extendedSubject Person/Organization
Washington Irving (1783-1859), William Irving (1766-1821)Subject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
New York, Genoa, Italy, Sicily, Italy, Naples, Italy, EnglandCollection
Irving Manuscript CollectionTranscription
Transcription
[LABEL]
rec’d at Genoa
Dec’r 18th 1804
[LETTER]
Copy
My dear Brother
Agreeably to your wish we have extended your credit with / Mefs’r [J.J. Bosc + Co. one thousand Dollars. So that we would wish you not to / hurry yourself in your journey. And should this reach you in time we would / advise you when at Naples to visit Sicily. We certainly would wish / you to visit England, and hope the above sum will accomplish all.
I have written you very particularly by this opportunity and of this / date, which letter I have directed Mefs’r Bosc not to forward but by a / safe conveyance, and the object of this letter is merely to take any [??] / of informing you of the extending of your credits, so that you may govern / yourself accordingly in your route. This Mefsr’s Bosc could have done / as well as I . but commercial men are so taken up with their own con= / =cerns that they are apt to forget these trifling, but sometimes important matters / in their consequences, belonging to others.
We are all well and for particulars I must refer you to my / letter [No. 6] of this date consideraly long
I am
My Dear Brother
Your affectionately
Wm. Irving Jun’r
New York 25h October 1804
[LATER NOTE]
[From Wm. Irving 2d of the name in American to his brother Washington - during / the first time of the latter in Europe. Called “Copy” sh’d be “duplicate” _ / for the letter is an original _ in the hand writing of Wm I.]
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[ADDRESS]
Washington Irving Esqr.Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
EnglishOther Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
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W 184
