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until his return to Macon. Ask William to tell you about my crop. Do not forget turnip seed - & to send negro measures about September to O Johnson & Co Savannah. the women are all to have bootees - does Dupey still intend to make me cart bodies - William offered to send for the wheels - Dear Tootee how shall I ever be able to pay all these expenses —
I will not close this until tomorrow - G & J have written to you, Sunday noon. Last evening we called at "Maple Cottage" Mrs D- has been been exceedingly attentive - Lillie is quite a Belle - we met several gentlemen there - She looked very pretty - tho' I do not think hers a face which improves on acquaintance. Lord & herself seem to be on good terms. Mrs D- treats him as she would a son. How well he shows in society far better than at home - he is intelligent, entertaining, quite the polished gentleman. We see very little of him. As he has had a great deal to do - Poor Malley calls himself a loafer. he has to give up his room & comes to us - Lord too has to give up his room & stops here Flora Appy & myself had come up & had taken off [illegible] G. was in the drawing room - when Dr Matthews called. G— had to entertain him alone. He came for us to go to church this morning - G. A. T. & myself went to hear Mr Beardsley - who gave us a most excellent sermon this afternoon G & F. will go - to hear a celebrated Preacher from N. Y. What an awful catastrophe was the burning of the Henry Clay & more than 60 bodies have been found - many very highly respectable persons were lost. Some burnt to death others drowned. Amanda and Mr Woolley went up to Albany in that very boat when they went up the Hudson. They were racing it then. By putting this letter in the office this evening you will get it this day week Georgia will defer writing until tomorrow or the next day — So that you may get it the mail after. You must try & put up with the letters I send you - tho I acknowledge they are hard to discipher. If I had leisure to arrange my ideas I could make make out better Kiss over & over again those beloved children for me. Tell them their Mother loves them most dearly & longs to see them again - My love to dear William & say I have never felt easy since he left me. Could he have remained with me it would have been the saving of some Hundreds of dollars — My love to poor old Mrs Gale - Tell all my negros "howde" particularly Papy, Old Jane - Clementine - Maria - Lady - Joney Cupid Quamona Polly dear me I may as well stop or I will be naming them all — I do hope & trust poor Dunham is better present us all kindly to him. Nalley says he intends writing very soon also Appy. Lord when he can find leisure — God! bless you my
own dear child - take care of your own precious self. do not forget that on you depends a [illegible] a share of the happiness of your devoted Mother A M King