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[in print] American Tract Society, INSTITUTED AT BOSTON IN 1814. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.
ATTRACTIVE BOOKS FOR ADULT AND JUVENILE READING.
The Tract Journal, for the Family. The Christian Banner, for the Army and Navy. The Child at Home, for the Sabbath School. The Freedman, for Colored Troops and Schools.
Boston, June 1st 1864.
[in pen] My Dears
Julias good letter came this A.M. Very glad to hear of your welfare—& especially that Sammy is getting along—It may be, the eruption of this disease will be the cure of his constitutional malady—Gods ways are not as our ways—Sorry about Mr L again—It may be indicative of our future—Put down your carpets as we planned however—[sleightily?] I would—Let them lower all so far as they go & be then content to wait & see, & enjoy, as we may, the present.
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Your carpet, as I found this morning cannot be matched—All of it went out of the market long since.
My health is pretty good, am working on with the [Freed?] slowly—Our committee seem encouraged, stay with Mr Child— where I find every hospitality.
Let me know, every other day, of your welfare—Mr— —Julias old music teacher, stopped me in the street to enquire about her—sent his regards & hoped she would not stop her practice.
Mrs Parker enquired after your this morning—& sends love—so of all your friends—shall prob-ably not be home for a week or two yet—but will write often, in answer to you, in the mean time
Yours as ever in [best?] J. W. A.