Ruggles, Union Square, With very high respect, Your obedient servant, WM. H. SEWARD. To CLARKSON CROLIUS, Jr.,~| EDWARD D. WEST, and *> Committee., $c New York.. WILLIAM DODGE, Esqrs. J

From Lt. Governor Bradish. Albany, November 1, 1842. GENTLEMEN: I am just favored with your invitation, in behalf of the Common Council of the city ofNew York, " to join with them on the 14th day of October, in celebrating the introduction of the Croton water into the city of New York."

Your letter was missent, and went first to Moriah, in Essex County was forwarded ;

thence to Moira, in Franklin County was thence returned to Albany thence forwarded ; ;

to New York thence sent back, and has just reached me here. I regret, exceedingly, this ;

long delay in the receipt of your letter, as it has prevented its earlier and due acknowledgment. Had it, however, reached me in season, my indispensable public duties here would not have permitted me the great pleasure it oifered me. It would otherwise have

afforded me the highest gratification, to unite with the Common Council and citizens of

232 CELEBRATION OF THE New York, in the celebration of an event, as important to the interests, as it is honorable to the character, of your city. The completion of the Croton Aqueduct, and the supplying of a great city with pure and wholesome water, would have illustrated any age of any Their achievement is a fit subject of the high congratulation and just pride of country. ours.