Letter from Henry F. Chorley to Charlotte Cushman, Nov 14, 1856

Chorley writes that "things go untowardly" in his life and mentions a grave in Rome.

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[2939] My dear friend. — I did not say "Thanks for" the "Cataw+++" with any thing like the elegance becoming the wisest of monarchs, when acknowledging beverages ministered to him by the most sumptuous of +++. – and I did not say "Good bye" — & a pleasing Journey" – because, I thought within myself –" If ever I set up a pace of new whist candlesticks again – they shall be

[2939 reverse] set up to some saint who is not always a +++ herself or somebody else. "– but magnanimity returning permits me[?] to take +++ you, with due compliments. – I am solely tempted to be up & away "this winter. too. & have betters this morning. that make me postpone final determination against moving. get some days. Things go, untowardly in every way with me but it can't be helped.

[2940] The name in the English Burial Ground at Rome is Margaret Lace, or M^rs. Ambrose Lace of Liverpool. — She died there in 1853. – and I should like to have a leap. or blade of grass from her grave: — for in hers I lost my oldest, kindest & most intimate friend. — It is weak work relic-gathering — but the greater part of my life. I filled with thoughts of the dead & gone; I don't indulge

[2940 reverse] the +++ often. — Very faithfully y^rs.

Henry F. Chorley.