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Maple Grove 6th mo. 19th 1840 --      I have been nursing Frank most of the morning or I might have written to you -- not that he is very sick but he has been taking oil and thinks he must lay on mother's lap -- How are you? not a word or a line since we left -- perhaps you can write by J. as he stays overnight we have just finish'd a long letter to Joseph if he has not yet answered yours I hope this will bring us some intelligence.
     We are as comfortable here as this cold weather will allow us to be the country is delightful I know not when I have enjoyed more than during our late excursion to Haddington they have a very snug place there we found Sidney busy in her garden -- we call'd to see cousin Anne Rhoades but was gone to her mother's -- The children interefere so much with my writing that I shall have to give it up -- Joe is impatient for the pen to try his skill and Frank wants to be nursed --
     Please remember me to cousin Anna and Debby. If it would not be too much trouble for one of you to call at Gilroys in the course of a week or two I would be much obliged -- she sent me my new corsets but retained a thin pair and a pair of old ones that I sent for a pattern and should be glad to have as soon as the weather is warm -- I have settled for them please ask for the pair she was to alter and the old ones -- if they are not ready you can direct them sent to your house and J can get them.
     Did you read the description of our boys in the Friend of the 6th inst. Aunt Betsy thought her favorite well described but I was struck with the resemblance to Frank in the second it seems as if he might have set for the likeness -- I have scrawled this for I expected to make lighters of it -- in haste
M. G. R
Maple Grove 6<sup>th</sup> mo. 19<sup>th</sup> 1840 --
<p-bgn>I have been nursing Frank most of the morning or I might
have written to you -- not that he is very sick but he has been taking oil
and thinks he must lay on mother's lap -- How are you? not a word or
a line since we left -- perhaps you can write by J. as he stays overnight
we have just finish'd a long letter to Joseph if he has not yet answered
yours I hope this will bring us some intelligence.<p-end>
<p-bgn>We are as comfortable here as this <und>cold weather </und>will allow us
to be the country is delightful I know not when I have enjoyed
more than during our late excursion to Haddington
they have a very snug place there we found Sidney busy in her
garden -- we call'd to see cousin Anne Rhoades but was gone to
her mother's -- The children interefere so much with my writing
that I shall have to give it up -- Joe is impatient for the pen
to try his skill and Frank wants to be nursed --<p-end>
<p-bgn>Please remember me to cousin Anna and Debby.
If it would not be too much trouble for one of you to call
at Gilroys in the course of a week or two I would be much
obliged -- she sent me my new corsets but retained a thin pair and a
pair of old ones that I sent for a pattern and should be glad to
have as soon as the weather is warm -- I have settled for them
please ask for the pair she was to <und>alter </und>and the old ones -- if they are not
ready you can direct them sent to your house and J can get them.<p-end>
<p-bgn>Did you read the description of our boys in the Friend of
the 6<sup>th</sup> inst. Aunt Betsy thought her favorite well described but I was
struck with the resemblance to Frank in the second it seems as if
he might have set for the likeness -- I have scrawled this for I expected
to make lighters of it -- in haste<p-end>
M. G. R