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the material | the material used being mostly a species of free stone of a light drab colour - They do not possess the white marble or beautiful bricks of Baltimore but their buildings evince | ||
of free stone of a light | private taste & a pervading public esprit. The Bumet house is a magnificent hotel of Palladian architecture - adorned with the finest mirrors, gilding, marble pavements & | ||
do not | finest furniture. The accomodations are excellent I should have preferred for comfort the less ostentatious "Inn". Prosperity and progress are everywhere evident & the long line of steam boats & piles of merchandise on the levee , the bustle of passing crowds, the whizz and whirr of factories and the elegant stores, bank buildings & public halls give token of a brilliant future to the Queen city of the West.- To Wm. F. [[unclear]] Mr Ste[[erasure]] grandson of [[unclear]] Longworth I am indebted for kindness - altho not very intimate with Mr & Mrs Dale of Baltimore I met them with great pleasure accidentally at the hotel - In the midst of strangers & a strange city one grasps the hand of a fellow citizen with peculiar | ||
bricks of | tenacity - May 14- Left Cincinnati on the Ben Franklin, a "crack boat"-- & arrived in Louisville by 10 1/2 but remained on board until the morning - Old gentleman | ||
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the material used being mostly a species of free stone of a light drab colour - They do not possess the white marble or beautiful bricks of Baltimore but their buildings evince private taste & a pervading public esprit. The Bumet house is a magnificent hotel of Palladian architecture - adorned with the finest mirrors, gilding, marble pavements & finest furniture. The accomodations are excellent I should have preferred for comfort the less ostentatious "Inn". Prosperity and progress are everywhere evident & the long line of steam boats & piles of merchandise on the levee , the bustle of passing crowds, the whizz and whirr of factories and the elegant stores, bank buildings & public halls give token of a brilliant future to the Queen city of the West.- To Wm. F. unclear Mr Steerasure grandson of unclear Longworth I am indebted for kindness - altho not very intimate with Mr & Mrs Dale of Baltimore I met them with great pleasure accidentally at the hotel - In the midst of strangers & a strange city one grasps the hand of a fellow citizen with peculiar tenacity - May 14- Left Cincinnati on the Ben Franklin, a "crack boat"-- & arrived in Louisville by 10 1/2 but remained on board until the morning - Old gentleman