succession in the phantasmagoria of Washington. The charm of all was the happy home in which I was placed, where the feelings might rally back to domestic life from the whirl of dissipation. I could never have stood the tumult and excitement of Washington if quartered in one of its tower of Babel hotels, but your house was like a gleam of my own home, and I could always fancy you and Mary Kennedy two of my nieces. By the way, I have sent Mary a set of my works to accompany my lithographed likeness which she asked. I hope they arrived safe. I told my publisher to direct them to her father's at Charlestown in Jefferson county.

Farewell, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. Give my most heartfelt remembrances to your worthy father, your sister, and Kennedy; I hope, now that the latter has given up his tour, you may all keep together and so make each other happy. Affectionately your friend, WASHINGTON IRVING.16

Extracts from Kennedy's Journal

(Baltimore, June 13, 1853.)-The mail brings a letter from Washington Irving saying that he has been too close in his studies, and that his physician having directed him to run away from them, he has taken the order and will be with us this evening, ready for a frisk with me to the mountains of Virginia. . . . . I go at 6 to the Philadelphia depot - but Irving is not there.

(June 14, 1843.)— Irving arrives at two, having stopped last night in Philadelphia. He looks very well—somewhat too full-plethoric. ... He is received [at Kennedy's country home, Patapsco] with all the kindness the family feel for him, and sits down to tea and strawberries and cream, very happy amongst a fine bevy of young girls.

(June 19, 1853.)-Irving and I set out to-morrow morning for Virginia."

(Berkeley Springs, June 29, 1853.)—I take Irving to the Bowling Alley, where he plays for the first time in his life, and is quite fascinated with the game, having achieved wonders in one or two ten-strikes. He says he must have an alley set up at home,—that is, he says, at Grinnell's, which adjoins him at Sunnyside.

(June 30, 1853.)—We bathe and bowl.

(Charlestown, July 4, 1853.) Dag 18 sends his carriage for me, and in due time I am seated with his family and Irving in the Hall enjoying the pleasant change of the weather. Irving is delighted at the escape from Bath. He is delivered, he says, from the Land of Egypt and the House of Bondage.

[On July 6 they began their return trip to Kennedy's country home, and

16 Two letters of April 24, 1853-one to Mrs. Kennedy, the other to Mr. Gray- are printed by P. M. Irying in the fourth volume of his Life (pp. 143 f.).

17 They left Baltimore, as scheduled, on the following day, going first to Charlestown, where they visited Audley, the home of Mrs. Washington Lewis, and consulted certain private papers of General Washington that Irving wished to see. Kennedy's account of this visit and of the impression made upon Irving by the "negro establishments" at Audley is printed in full by Tuckerman (Life, pp. 358 f.).

18 Kennedy's younger brother, Andrew.

on July 11 Irving left Baltimore for his home at Sunnyside. Ten days later Kennedy went on to Saratoga, but stopped for a day or two in New York, where Irving joined him for the time being.]

(New York, July 20, 1853.)-Irving is in town expecting us, and dines with us. After dinner the ladies, taking Irving and myself, drive up Broadway to Stewart's to shop. Irving and I lounge through those immense rooms wondering and admiring at the magnificence of the establishment. We are watched by persons appointed to keep a lookout, evidently under the apprehension that we may be a pair of respectable-looking sharpers who might find opportunity to pocket a piece of lace or other pocketable matter. After that we dine at the Chrystal 19 Palace.20

Irving to Kennedy

SUNNYSIDE, Aug. 28th, 1853

MY DEAR KENNEDY,—I find, by your most welcome letter, that you must be now in New York, to remain there part of this week. I am too weak to come down; for though the fever has been cast forth, by the aid of a High German doctor, it has left my unfortunate stomach in such a state that I have scarce tasted food for nine days past, and I am reduced almost to poetical dimensions. Still I am gradually regaining strength, and shall be able to receive you cheerily if you and my dear Mrs. Kennedy will pay me that visit of which you give me hopes. The sight of you both would be a real restorative. I only regret that the state of Mr. Gray's health will not permit him and Miss Gray to accompany you. Why cannot you both come up on Tuesday? A train leaves the Chambers Street Station at 10 o'clock which will land you at Dearman between 11 and 12, where my carriage will be waiting for you. We dine at 3 o'clock, and a train starts from Dearman at 6 o'clock which will take you down. I trust we can make your time pass pleasantly while you are up here, and you cannot imagine what pleasure your visit will give us all. Let me know by my nephew, Mr. Pierre M. Irving, who will take this, whether we are to expect you."1 21

19 Kennedy's spelling.

20 On August 1, as we learn from Kennedy's journal, Irving joined Kennedy at Saratoga, and about the middle of the month they spent several days together at Niagara, after which Irving returned home. Kennedy left Saratoga for New York on August 26.

21 Kennedy accepted this gracious invitation and paid Irving a visit at Sunnyside on August 30, 1853. He makes this entry in his journal touching his visit: "Irving is just recovering from a severe attack of fever which has greatly reduced him since we parted at Niagara. He is very cheerful and exceedingly gratified at our visit. . . . Irving lives very happily here, a kind-hearted gentleman with the reverence and authority of a patriarch in this his adopted family. . . . At parting with Irving he promised us another visit at Patapsco about the end of September.'

Irving visited Kennedy again in October (see Kennedy's letter of September 22, 1853, published by Tuckerman, pp. 381 f.). He reached Baltimore on October 2, and on October 13 set out with Kennedy on a visit to Virginia, going to Charlestown, Martinsburg, and Winchester, among other places, and stopping en route at, Greenway Court (see Tuckerman, pp. 238 f.). They returned to Baltimore on October 22, and two days later Irving was called home by the death of James B. King, co-executor with him of the Astor estate.

I am very sorry to learn that Mr. Gray has had a touch of asthma while in the country; but hope he will be well enough to enjoy his visit to the city. I need not say how truly delighted I should be should he be able to venture up here with you.

With affectionate regard [s] to all your party,

Yours sincerely, dear Kennedy,

JOHN P. KENNEDY, ESQ.

WASHINGTON IRVING.

Irving to Mrs. Kennedy

SUNNYSIDE, Nov. 11th, 1853

MY DEAR MRs. Kennedy,—I am shocked at what you tell me that old Phil has cut his master off with a shilling! I think it would not have happened had I been in Baltimore. I flatter myself that Phil has a kindness for me, and think I could have prevailed on him to forgive your father on condition of his never enquiring again into the state of the larder. As to your sister's injunction that Phil's burst of noble ire "is all owing to his young wife," it is just of a piece with her persecution of that virtuous couple. Her whole conduct in regard to this little African love story has been barbarous and might furnish a supplementary chapter to Uncle Tom's Cabin when it goes to a fiftieth edition. The winding up of the chapter, however, would be a triumph to Mrs. Stowe, and on recording Phil's lofty discharge of his old master, she might exclaim with Zanga "Afric, thou art revenged!"

How comes on the "House that Jack built"—or is to build? . . . . [The rest of this paragraph may be found in Tuckerman's Life of Kennedy, pp. 144-5.]

Of late I have gratified my building propensity in a small way by putting up a cottage for my gardener and his handsome wife and have indulged in other unprofitable improvements incident to a gentleman cultivator. A pretty country retreat is like a pretty wife—one is always throwing away money on decorating it. Fortunately I have but one of those two drains on the purse, and so do not repine.

I see you are again throwing out lines to tempt me back to Baltimoreand sending me messages from Mary Dulaney and dear little Lu.23 And I have a letter from Mr. Andrew Kennedy inviting me to come to Cassilis " and the Shenandoah when I am tired of the Hudson. Ah me! I am but mortal man and but too easily tempted - and I begin to think you have been giving me love powder among you-I feel such a hankering toward the South. But be firm, my heart! I have four blessed nieces at home hanging about my neck and several others visiting me and holding me by the skirts. How can I tear myself from them? Domestic affection forbids it!

And so with kindest remembrances to your father, sister, and husband and lots of love to Mary Dulaney and "Lu," Yours affectionately,

WASHINGTON IRVING.

22" Old Phil" was Mr. Gray's “factotum and valley-de-sham" (see Irving's fine description of him in P. M. Irving's Life, IV, p. 124).

* Neighbors and friends of the Kennedys and Grays.、 “Lu” was Miss Louisa Andrews. *The home of Kennedy's mother in Jefferson Co., near Charlestown, West Virginia.

Irving to Kennedy

SUNNYSIDE, Dec. 20th, 1853. MY DEAR KENNEDY,—It would give me the greatest delight to attend the anniversary dinner of your Historical Society, having, as you know, a sneaking kindness for all gastronomical solemnities of the kind; but all great dinners are strictly forbidden me by a homeopathic physician, who has my head in his hands, and is poisoning me into a healthy state of the brain by drachms and scruples. As to oratorical display, which you hold out as a bait to me, I believe it is my bane. I don't believe I have yet got over my last attempt of the kind: it was at the meeting at which Bryant read his eulogium on Fenimore Cooper. I had to announce from the stage that Mr. Webster was to preside for the evening. I made a speech of nearly a minute, with but one break down, but the pangs of delivery were awful.

I beg you will make an apology for me to the Society in your best manner. Say something handsome about my great respect for the institution: my veneration for Maryland in general, my love for Baltimore in particular, and if you can introduce something spicy about the siege, and the various achievements of the Baltimore volunteers (yourself among the number), so much the better.25

You do not tell me whether the rupture between Mr. Gray and old Phil still continues, and whether, like that between the Czar and the Turk, it is almost beyond the healing powers of diplomacy. I rather think I shall have to come on and negociate, and if I can only prevail upon old Phil to take Mr. Gray again into favor, we will kill a fatted calf on the occasion.

With affectionate remembrances to Gray and the two ladies, I remain as ever, my dear Kennedy, Yours truly,

J. P. KENNEDY, ESQ.

WASHINGTON IRVING.

SUNNYSIDE, June 29th, 1854.

MY DEAR KENNEDY,-Your letter is perfectly satisfactory as explaining Mrs. Kennedy's silence and relieving me from some apprehensions on her own account; having heard that you had been suddenly summoned home from your feasting and speech-making by intelligence of her indisposition.26 I trust your presence has restored her to health, and your writing to me has quieted her conscience, and that you are now enabled to take your hat and walk out on the Pont Neuf whenever you please. I am really glad that you have got home safe and well from your Southern tour; which, from all that

25 This letter was written in response to a letter of Kennedy's, of December 18, 1853, inviting Irving to a dinner to be given under the auspices of the Maryland Historical Society. A letter from Irving of date February 21, 1854, to Mrs. Kennedy, touching a recent illness of Kennedy's, is printed by P. M. Irving, IV, pp. 170 f.

26 The reference is to a letter of Kennedy's of June 19, 1854 (preserved in his lettercopies), in which he states that Mrs. Kennedy has been in the hands of a physician. Kennedy had been absent from Baltimore for two months or more on a trip to the West and South with ex-President Fillmore (see Tuckerman, pp. 241 f.).

I have seen reported of it in the papers, must have been very satisfactory. I went down town to see Mr. Filmore; but he had set off for home an hour or two before my visit.

I am very much struck with the illustration which accompanies your letter, setting forth the new tower to the chateau on the Patapsco. It is something to inspire romance and if I were a year or two younger and were not troubled with chills and fever and a villanous catarrh, I should be tempted to take your hint and attempt a [. . . . .]27, especially if your wife and Miss Gray would promise to appear at the hanging balcony.

This has been rather an unfortunate season with me, having had two returns of my old complaint of chills and fever, the last just as I was on my way to attend a wedding of a grand niece, at which all the ten tribes of the family were assembled. However, I have had the young couple to pass part of their honeymoon at Sunnyside, and that has consoled me.

I cannot promise you any visit to the Patapsco during hot weather. The state of my system, and the experience of last year has determined me to keep quiet at home until the sultry season is over; yet my heart yearns to be with you all again and to make another visit to the Shenandoah valley. However, all that I keep in perspective as a boy keeps Christmas holydays or the fourth of July.

My nephew, Pierre M. Irving, and his wife came home perfectly delighted with a visit they had paid you on their way South during your absence. Pierre was especially pleased with a long conversation he had with Mr. Grey, who has quite won his heart. I am glad they were able to look in on the family during their brief sojourn in Baltimore. I like that good people should know one another, especially good people in whom I take especial interest.

I write this letter with a head confused and almost stupefied with a catarrh, which must apologize for its insufficiency. Give my most affectionate remembrances to all the family and believe me ever, my dear Kennedy, WASHINGTON IRVING.

JOHN P. KENNEDY, ESQ.

Yours very truly,

SUNNYSIDE, July 25, 1854.

My dear KenneDY,- The "Schuyler affair" has no doubt made a great noise in your community as it has every [where] else. To me it has been a severe shock from my intamacy with George Schuyler and his connexions, the Hamiltons. From all that I know of George I have acquitted him, from the first, of any participation in his brother's delinquency, and such I am happy to find is the verdict of some of our most able and experienced men of business who have investigated the matter; and who intend, I am told, at the proper time, to testify publicly their conviction of his integrity.

The circumstance that may operate most against George until explained is that while he was president of the Harlem railroad, similar over-issues of stock took place with those on the New Haven railroad. The facts of the case are these: The laws of Connecticut obliged Robert Schuyler to resign

27 Illegible.