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(in pencil) 38
Mt Vernon Hotel
Balto Feb 14th
'84
Dear Jervy --
I intended to see you before I left New York and therefore did not write, but various distractions prevented & so time has flown by me unheeded 'till a month has pafsed. I was obliged to leave my poor mother on her back with a broken hip joint and her condition, tho' progrefsing favorably, is still a source of great anxiety. Having an interval of life, in the midst of my dead
monotony, (for my days are all of a dreary drag sort of existence) I have been scribbling to various neglected friends in order to recall myself to their recollection: --
I hoped to pafs the next five weeks in New York but owing to some managerial complications about dates I am compelled to jump from here to Boston Sunday next & so defer my return home for two more weeks at least, perhaps three -- when I hope to see you.
The rain has seldom ceased a day during three weeks
past & the result is the 'blues' & achey bones, though, strange to say, my businefs has been brilliant since I left New York -- I played there too soon after the great 'scoop' that Irving & the Operas (to say nothing of the Holidays) made of Gotham's loose change. You know that I have nothing to write about beyond myself -- my businefs, or my glooms, that's one reason why I defer correspondence. I rarely go out -- see few folks and hear nothing of interest to you -- or to me.
Callers stop me at this important juncture and I must
deny you more of my entertaining complaining today.
Hoping you and yours are well and with cordial good wishes
I am as ever
Yours
Edwin