S.C. Crafts
Nov. 12, 1820
Washington November 12 1820
My dearest Friend,
This is the first opportunity I have had to write
you since I left Albany, at which place I wrote to you.
We took our departure from Albany on tuesday morning and
unfortunately the steamboat got a ground soon after we set
out and we remained in sight of Albany until sundown,
at which time the tide rose sufficiently high to float us off-
by this delay we arrived the next day too late to get a passage
to Philadelphia, and were under the necessity of [ ]
there over night- From New York by travelling night and day
I have arrived here without any further accident and in
good health.  From Albany to New York I was in Company
of Romes Wardsworth- he has resided in N York since he remov-
ed from Montreal- he has married again and informs me
that he is not at present engaged in any business- but I was in-
formed that he made a very handsome property at Montreal
during the late war, which he has transferred to N.Y. but had  
not vested it as yet in any [  ] of business- Wardsworth in-
formed me that he has been at Farmington & Hartford during
the past summer, was at Doct Todds- and says he was inform-
ed that the Doct was gaining practice very fast, having nearly 
or quite as much as he could attend to- I also met Mr Reefs
in New York just as I was coming away, he told me that
the Doctors family were all in good health two days before


I should have been much more particular in my enquiries,
but supposing he would be in company with me to Washing-
ton, and I could make them when more at [leisure] than at
that time, I parted with him, and learn he was detained at 
New York, and has not yet arrived here - The members of 
Congress have generally got here, and there is no doubt but 
a quorum will be found at the call of the house tomorrow. 
I have not yet fixed upon a boarding house for the session
I have been looking round a little, and find they all want 
a little advance upon the last years prices - Mr Richard & 
myself will take a room together as usual -
The weather is been rather unpleasant during the whole of
my journey - yesterday it snowed the whole time we were
passing from Baltimore to this place, to day it is rainy and 
the snow is all gone, but the roads are all mud - I suppose
the weather has been too bad for Mr Kendall to finish the 
roof - and fear as it has got so late in the season that it can-
not be done this season - I hope that you will suffer no 
considerable inconvenience this winter from on that account -
Give my love to Mary - tell her I will write to her as 
soon as I can get established in some boarding house - in 
the mean time I have no convenient place nor time
for writing
I remain, dear Eunice, yours affectionately
S C Crafts