Jánossy Dénes: A Kossuth-emigráció Angliában és Amerikában 1851-1852, I. kötet (Budapest, 1940)
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74. United States Steam Frigate Mississippi, Gibraltár, 1851 október 13. Kossuth Long kapitányhoz intézett levelében felsorolja) azokat az okokat, amelyek utazásának megszakítására késztetik. Nyomtatvány. The New York Daily Times, 1852. jan. 24. Having had the honor to state that though my return from England to Gibraltar, and so continuing my passage to the United States, would require to be some twenty days longer at sea at the present late season, than to go directly from liverpool to New York, I still would prefer to go on board the Mississippi frigate to the United States, to any other means •of passage, so highly do I appreciate this honor and this distinction. You, sir, had the highly obliging kindness to inform me that you will await my return here from England in the steamer which leaves England on the 1st of November next. Though I felt very much pained at the idea that my most imperious duties forcing me to ask and to accept this delay, I may have augmented the sufferings of the officers and crew of this ship, as also to my associates, still I felt somewhat consolated at the conviction that, leaving Southampton on the 27th, I will be back again on the 2nd of November, and that you might yet reach New York before the end of that month. Unhappily, and quite unexpectedly, I learn now from the agency of the Oriental Company, that the boat expected tomorrow, on board of which I intended to embark for England, makes eleven days to Southampton from Gibraltar, as it has to touch Cadiz and Lisbon. I cannot expect to land at Southampton before the 25 th , and having to return the 27 th , I had only one single day to arrange my public and private "bussiness. On the other hand the next packet boat not leaving England but on the 7th November and making likewise eleven days to Gibraltar, I could not be back here before the 18 th of November; so that if you would be pleased to grant me yet Jánossy: Kossuth-emigráció. I. 43
