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is ready to dispair. Her affection knows no ebbing tide. It flows on
from a pure fountain, spreading happiness through all this vale of tears,
and ceases only at the ocean of eternity." True, true--
I will wish you a happy new year. Bury our late sorrows
in oblivion, and commence a new life with the year.
We have had a very disagreeable winter so far, it has been rane or
snow continualy, our Citizens are very sickly and often fatal over
children are very much afflicted with the hooping cough, Frances
Morton has it too and all the black children. We have a fine time of it
dont you think? How I do wish you could see your name sake she
bares her afflictions like a heroine. She is the most interesting of any
of them at her age. She is still small but spightly as a kitten
She is caled Theodore more than Theodora. Mary remindes me often
of you. She is affetionate, has a remarkable sence of justice, generous
and a first rate memory. These are the trates of caracter that
she reminds me of you. Paulina is her father over again
She is fier and toe when her temper is up But a true disinterested and
kind friend. Liz. is a compound of a Morton and Sloan. Bob went to
Frankfort this morning. His health I think is better this winter
in fact it has been improving ever since. he has been temperance man
I do dislike to see him so very much ingaged in business, he has not one
moment in the twenty four hours for social intercorse with his family
I do not like it--The family consists of the same individuals as when
you left, with one more. (Frances Morton) she will go home in the spring
Washington will live with us an other year. We will have a wedding in the
house next spring, guess--It will be a white one. I have had a hint that we will
have two. I tell you all when it happens. Magaretta has had bad health
for some time. I hope God will spare her longer for the sake of her children