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via City of Balto.        11 Welfield Place 6th: May 1862

                                              Tuesday night            


Dear Ann


                   I have already written to Matthew


this afternoon, via Borussia, announcing my return


with Elizabeth Bold last night from our Welsh trip,


& acknowledging his letter of 19 & 23 April via City of


Balto. and Asia, & yours of 17/18 and 20/23rd: via Portland


str. & Asia. – I found so many letters awaiting


my return (not having had any sent after me into


Wales) that it took me upwards of an hour to read


them all this morng. –


     I have not yet seen William or Fontaine since my


return, but I put on the chimney piece the letters for


them & Font recd: in mine today, & he called at the


office whilst I was out & got them.


     I feel Tobins attention in writing me the short


note you have enclosed: it is as follows; -


   “Dear Nunx – This is the eve of departure.  I just


want to write good bye to you; and if sometimes I


have seemed unkind in not considering you as I


ought to have done, on account of your deafness,


please forget it. – I never knew the value of kind


-ness until lately, when I have had just a taste of


men as business machines & no longer friends &


companions – affectionately yours.


                                                   Tobin Maury”?


     He will no doubt find this experience of the value


of a kind home all the stronger the farther he travels


from it, & often indeed wish himself back again.


   My best wishes will follow him wherever he goes, like


those of the old gentleman with whom I parted at the


Menai-bridge on Wednesday last; but I must still


think he has embarked upon a mad, boyish freak, &


must encounter very serious & needless difficulties for


want of the requisite acquirements as to counting


house duties &c:, tho’ I hope there are good Samaritans



among the Americans or English in the China ports


who will have pity upon him & give him the helping hand.


     I am obliged to you for the copy of Nan’s welcome


letter of 31st: March. – When we were in Snowden 4


days ago, the guide was giving Miss Barbara Jones the


history of her being lost, & he pointed out the spot where


she was said to have been found. – He was not a guide


at that time, but had learnt all the particulars from


others. – he was also telling of an old guide who within


the past 12 mos. was stretching himself out to gather


a fern of a rare kind growing below the edge of a preci-


=pice on Snowden, when he lost his balance, & was


dashed to pieces!


     We had quite a pleasant ramble over the spots


you must well remember, & we were favored with


good weather just at the places where we most wish


=ed for it. – On Thursday morng. we rode by Railway


to Caenarvon, spent ½ an hour or more in seeing the


old Castle, when I climbed up the Eagle tower, whilst


Elizabeth who had tight boots to pinch her feet, sat


with Miss Jones until I had ended my explorations.


The abundance of wall-flowers in bloom brightened


the effect. – I laid out 8/– in 7 stereoscopic views &


a history of the Castle. – About noon we started from


the Uxbridge Arms (the house we were driven to with


our Father & Mother where Matthew under the postboy


to drive on to “the Goat”? – now no longer a tavern)


– but we had hardly left the door in our open


car, when it began to rain furiously, which seem-


=ed ill starved enough, but it cleared up in a few


minutes, & remained fair till with glimpses of sun


=shine till we reached Beddgelert, about noon 2 p.m.


   The Goat Inn is still the only one there, but it is now


greatly enlarged, & has some very pretty shrubbery &


walks lying in front of it.  We slept there on Thrus=


=day night : - but after dinner that day we started



in bright sunshine for a drive of 6 miles on the road


towards Capel Curig, & ther views were most enchanting.


Before we got home it began to rain, & it continued raining


& storming until long after dark.  The Barometer fell much


& continued falling until I went to bed, thinking over the


spoiled excursion to the “Island in the Lake of Dambia.”?


     I rose at 6 & found it fair, but cloudy & rather cold.


     I walked below the bridge at Port Aberglaslyn, & came


home by the time the ladies were ready for breakfast, &


was encouraged by a rising Barometer. – I then ordered


an open car at 10 to take whither I had walked in the


morng.: & then to LLanberis.  Whilst the car was getting


ready we inspected the little primitive church at Bedd-


=gelert inside as well as out: – parts of it, Miss Jones


said, are 900 years old. – The weather mended all


the time after we took our seats in the car, & we had


hardly bid good bye to B.gelert when it was very


bright & sunny for the rest of our ride. –Elizabeth


had exchanged her tight boots for an easier pair,


so we occasionally walked as we climbed the hill


above Lyn Gwynant. – The scenery around both those


two lakes was exquisite; & the sky became more &


more cloudless as we preceeded; thus the Pass of Llan


-beris, thro’ which a fine carriage road now runs,


was seen in its highest perfection: - & it was then


that I was fixed with the idea of ascending Snowden,


& proposed it to the ladies who (neither of them


having ever been up) were nothing loth to make the


attempt. – I bespoke a guide & 3 ponies, & lunch; &


it was 3½ p:m: when we started & 8¼ when we


got back. – We could not have had a finer day.


- not a cloud was to be seen in any direction during


those 5 hours.  But the fatigue was great, arising


from being unaccustomed to riding on horseback.


  Elizabeth was the most done up, for she had not


been on horseback since she was in Portugal: nor


had I indeed for many years. – A good night's



rest at the sumptuous hotel at Llanberis – only


second to the George Hotel at Banger Ferry – repaired


the damage to our wearied limbs, & we set out at 11


a.m. with another fine day to re-ascend the Pass of


Llanberis, in our car for Capel Curig.  There was a


haze in the atmosphere, the wind being East, but


the view of Snowden & the other hills, as

seen from


C. Curig was as fine as ever.  We merely alighted


at the little inn there – which looked just as when


I first saw it; & then we took another car for


Llanrwst.  We stopped by the wayside, & walked


down to the pretty cascade of Rhaidr y wenol.


   We ordered a warm lunch at the Eagle Inn


at LLanrwst, & whilst it was getting ready in


=spected the famed 3 arch bridge of Inigo Jones


& went inside of the old church, where there was


much of interest in old monuments &c: to repay us.


Among the rest was an old crusader’s touch, that


of Lewellyn the Great, & various interesting brass tablets.


   We vastly enjoyed our meal, & then drove to Con


=way, where we put up at the old inn called


the Castle Hotel, to remain there for 2 nights.


   As there was still sufficient daylight we went


to the Castle itself, where we found a very in=


=telligent guide, who explained all matters most


completely, & not by rote only: – He pointed out


the spots on the opposite hill where the batteries


were planted that besieged the Castle & took


it in Cromwell’s time. – The siege was directed


by an officer called “Mytton”? – a friend of Crom


-well. – Altogether this story struck me all the


more form being in keeping with the present


struggle in America. -



                                  5


We took the Railway train yesterday morning


at 8¾ for from Conway for the station at the


Menai Bridge. – As we were waiting for the


train there were about half a dozen men


there rigged up in fantastic style for doing the


honours of the month of May as Morris dancers,


– so the old customs are not extinct yet


in primitive spots like Conway. – From Menai


bridge we took a car to Beaumaris to leave


Miss Barbara at her own home.  The ride be=


=tween there & the bridge is most beautiful &


the day was most beautiful too.  We spent


2 hours at Beaumaris, when we went inside


the old Castle, Miss Barbara acting as guide


& then she took me to some most beautiful


views, whilst lunch was getting ready. – We


left Beaumaris with a hearty interchange of


good bye, at 1 p.m., Elizabeth & I intending


to take the train for Lpool at 1¾ p:m:


that would land us here at 5.111; but by


some blunder of mine in consulting Brad=


=shaw we were just in time to miss that


that train & had to wait 1¾ hour for the


next, & thus it was all but 9 when we


reached Welfield Place. –


    I feel particularly obliged to Miss Barbara


for her company, as otherwise Elizabeth & I


would have got on but poorly together. – She was


the life of the party, & I believe that she too had


quite a pleasant time of it. – The whole ex-


-pence of the journey was about £22-



The next journey is to be this one was Mary Bold


to London; & it is intended to be entered upon


on the 19th inst.  She is trying to persuade me


it is best for her not go to London until after I


shall have embarked on 7th: June, as she would


wish to be here, whereas if she goes with me to London


she would remain there until after I have sailed.


But I say she must go up to London when


I go, & that I can manage very well without her


aid at my departure. –


     I have my work before me to try & execute these


orders for Matthew for the two oil paintings;


as well as some other commissions.  But


I must not go to bed as it’s near day break!


     7th May – 5¼ p:m:  I have been as busy


as a bee all day. – I called yesterday at H.N.


Hughes office, but he was out.  Today I had


an hour’s talk with him.  He manifested inter=


=est in our common relatives.  Very unexpect


=edly to me he manifestedafterwards sent

me a note of which I enclose a copy


as to aid in getting my namesake liberated.


I have not seen Wm: yet since I got back from Wales.


     Mr. [S...?] has given me his consent (as


Prest. of Amn. C. of Commerce) to lend me the


original portrait to have a copy made of it. -


    I have written to day to Mr. Weston & have en-


-closed copy of my letter in a note to Mary


Wakefield. – I have not time to read over


the forgoing 6 pages – not any time to write to


Matthew today.   yrs. affectionately  R Maury



(Copy)                    13 Hargreaves Buildings


                                             Chapel St.


                                  Liverpool 7th May 1862


Rutson Maury Esq


             Dear Sir


                             However great the folly of


Rutson Maury Jr: may be, still I do not


wish hereafter to reflect that I failed him


at a pinch. –


     I understand both these lads got out


last time without payment of any fine,


and that (as far as I know at any rate)


the credit I gave you on their behalf


has not been used, in whole, or in part;


–and if I am right in that impression, you


are at liberty to devote the credit of two


hundred & fifty dollars – say $250 – to


further his release from the new arrest &


difficulty into which you this day informed


me that hopeful Nephew has been entangled.


     And the bill of your firm at New York for


the whole or any part of the sum, in further-


- ance of his release, shall meet due honour


at the hands of  


                            yours very truly


                   (signed) Horatio N. Hughes