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365 Fourth St. N[ew] York 9th June [18]63

My dear Miss Virginia (Draper)

From the Oriental character of your letter I received last night thro’ the kindness & attention of your Brother, I am apprehensive that you may think me a very exacting & [p...ous?] per- son, - which, I think, is not the fact, though it is somewhat difficult, you know, to see ourselves as other see us.

I am in perplexity also to account for the non-receipt of that first [underscored] letter – the one I mean addressed to myself – not the one to Mytton – the latter, you know, being unimportant, but the former quite the opposite. If I might venture to suggest the cause it would be some deficiency in the matter of postage-stamps. –

To ensure punctuality on the next

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(2) occasion you may feel yourself impelled, either by necessity or incli= =nation, to address another letter to me – as also to save trouble to others please omit in the direction both 5 Hanover St. and 365 Fourth St, & insert in their place (below my own Name) “Messrs Maury Brothers,” & then

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all chance of failure will be avoided unless indeed Mr. Seward should again be prying into our correspondence – which however I do not at all appre= =hend. –

As yet we have had no letters from the travellers later than those we received on Wednesday last by the Persia, when both were well.

Only one came to us from Mytton, & it was to Sarah. – I have asked her its date [underscored], but lady [underscored] – like, that is a point she does not remember; then I asked whether he spoke of his intend=

[Marginalia – Left side] My Sister’s and Mytton’s sea [underscored] letters having been returned to me today

[Marginalia – Right side] from St. Louis, where I had sent them to Harriet to read I now enclose them to you for the same purpose, but if you them too stale [‘too stale’ underscored] you need not enter upon the task. –

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(3) ed [‘intended’ underscored] ( not ----, but) movements [underscored]; & she said he did not – Had you only enlightened me so far as to give me the date [underscored] of the letter you say you received from him on Friday last, I might perhaps have been able to account for his non-receipt of the missive that so soon followed his departure; as I have an idea that, when he [underscored] wrote, the steamer by which you [underscored] wrote, had not arrived. – I too wrote by that same steamer (as I have done regu- -larly twice a week ever since) to my Sister, & I think she also does not ac- -knowledge any letter from me.

Her letters are highly satisfactory in all respects but one. Her first letter written at sea, mentioned that she had suffered a good deal in pain & inconve= =nence from a small cinder having got into her eye. I thought little of it, at the time, supposing she would have entirely recovered from it before they landed; but instead of that, it grew worse; so the

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thing she did on ^ Monday morning was to pay a visit to Dr. Neill, a very clever

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(4) man, both as [...ist?] & [ ist?]. Ann says he turned both of her eyes “inside out,” & then told her it was not, [underscored] as he had at first feared, the [struck-through] an embedding & fixture of the [cornea?] in the eye, but merely that it had cut a vein. She did not reap the benefit she expected from the lotion

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he prescribed (the fact was ^ employed herself far too much as I am now [?]) so she paid him a second visit where he prescribed another ap= =plication, more stimulating, & somewhat pain =ful. Expecting, however, to be under no further necessity of seeing him & to have her eye in fit state for travelling in a few days, she says on the 22nd ulto [22 May] that she was to leave L[iver]pool for Kendal on Monday the 25th, to pay a visit, that I think will last a week or two, to her old friend Miss Mary Wakefield at Sedgwick.

And now, before my sheet is too full (perhaps you think it is so already) I will beg you, as I ought to have done, you [struck-through] at at the outsett, to express my thanks to your Father & Mother on behalf of Sarah, & myself for their kind invitation for the 27th Inst [27 June] which we gladly accept let the weather then be as it may, inasmuch as we acknowledge other attractions besides those of various kinds that appertain to the Moon. yours affectionately Rutson Muary.