1886 JOHN J INGALLS Kansas Senator Signed Letter to HORACE RUSSELL Judge NY ALS. Ingalls thanks Russell for his recent letter and declines his invitation to be a speaker at a dinner. I have translated the best I could but was unable to decipher a few words. 

John J. Ingalls Kansas- U.S. Senator, Elected President pro tempore of the Senate in 1887

Horace Russell New York. Republican Party, Superior Court Judge 

Washington DC 12.6.86

Dear Sir, 

Accept my thanks for your very obliging letter of the 4th which I find on my arrival home from the west today. I have no doubt I should find the New England Festival exceedingly pleasant and Profitable. Now am I _____to the great honor of being included in the glittering array of celebrities whom you_____as speakers at the dinner. But I regret that my other ____are such that I cannot promise to attend. I am sure you will____ indifference(?)______to me, nor ____want to appreciate of the singular courtesy which accompanies your____.

Faithfully yours,

John J. Ingalls