Moses A. Curtis Biographical File

[ Mrs. Mary J. Curtis Hillborough, N.C. ]

Lookout Mt. Tenn: July 4th 1857.

Well, dearest, another word with you, - rather with you now than with Jinny, tho she begged me repeatedly to write to her from Chattanooga. I do not care to write to any one else from here. I can write to _her_ when I get home if the humor takes me.

We have ^had a pretty successful affair to-day. A stand & seat were prepared in the woods, from whence we had a magnificent view of country far as one could see. We were marsha[lled?] to the ground in a procession proceded by a band of music. The exercises [?] opened by a lesson from Scripture read by Bp. Green. [No, the singing of Old Hundred preceded this.] The the [Te?] Deum. prayer by Bp. Cobbs. Gloria in Excelsis. [Singing by an extempore chior, Bp. Elliot's wife presiding at a Melodeon which I had noticed at _my_ hotel, & propsed it shd. [?] sent for.]