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Henry Eno letters to his father, January 1835-July 1837
1835-01-20 Page 1
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Albany, January 20th, 1835 Dear Father You will be rather surprised at receiving a letter from me at this place as am I, almost at finding myself here - for I did not intend to leave Penn Yan again for sometime. The circumstances which led me to come is that one of the attornies in the Village W Morman has had a petition presented to the Sup. court with accompanying affidavits to have his name struck from the roll of attornies for mal practice & as it was something very important to him he employed me to attend to it & wanted me to personally see the Judge and make some explanations what could not well be done by affidavits - I left Penn Yan on Saturday at half past nine and was in Albany at three o'clock in the morning - when first went in I wait I found the papers on file I had then I brought (?) & in the evening called on the Chief Justice at his chambers and was enabled to explain every thing satisfactorily to him - my business will be accomplished to day as he told me he would submit the papers to his colleagues and let me know the result - Since I am here I think I shall stay some four or five days and perhaps longer - as time will not hang very heavy for the debates in the legislature are apearing rather an interesting shape & the Sup. court is in session & also this circuit court of the U. Mater - it is expected that the suit of Martha Bradstreet will come on again & be tried this week. Staunton Merrick received his sentence a few days before I left of nine months imprisonment & $200 fine
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Albany, January 20th, 1835 Dear Father You will be rather surprised at receiving a letter from me at this place as am I, almost at finding myself here - for I did not intend to leave Penn Yan again for sometime. The circumstances which led me to come is that one of the attornies in the Village W Morman has had a petition presented to the Sup. court with accompanying affidavits to have his name struck from the roll of attornies for mal practice & as it was something very important to him he employed me to attend to it & wanted me to personally see the Judge and make some explanations what could not well be done by affidavits - I left Penn Yan on Saturday at half past nine and was in Albany at three o'clock in the morning - when first went in I wait I found the papers on file I had then I brought (?) & in the evening called on the Chief Justice at his chambers and was enabled to explain every thing satisfactorily to him - my business will be accomplished to day as he told me he would submit the papers to his colleagues and let me know the result - Since I am here I think I shall stay some four or five days and perhaps longer - as time will not hang very heavy for the debates in the legislature are apearing rather an interesting shape & the Sup. court is in session & also this circuit court of the U. Mater - it is expected that the suit of Martha Bradstreet will come on again & be tried this week. Staunton Merrick received his sentence a few days before I left of nine months imprisonment & $200 fine
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