Aunt Carr received your letter yesterday and as she is over head and ears fixing up your old crape for Maria to wear to the cotillion party tomorrow, she has commissioned me to answer it, she sends her love to you with many thanks for your letter & promises to write on sunday; you never saw...

What do I think of W. Gilmer? I only wish that I could find language strong enough to express my abhorance for his most unfeeling & ungrateful conduct, for surely nothing could be more unfeeling than his writing against the lottery, let his opinion of it be what it might, when we consider his...

Such an adventure my dear Jane as I have had, “but I will not anticipate,” I suppose that you know that mamma went to Atamasco last sunday to spend a fortnight, with and, Margaret with what aunt Carr calls her fidgetty disposition determined to spend that time with sister C—& accordingly...

I was not a little delighted by th receiving a second letter from my dear brother, for I was really beginning to be seriously apprehensive least I should never again have that honour, that you might have no excuse for dropping the correspondence, I had determined to answer yours the day after...

I have been waiting with the utmost impatience for you to commence a correspondence with me as you promised to do, but as it seems to have escaped your memory I have determined to give it a little jog, (if you’ll allow me the expression) for I had anticipated a great deal of pleasure from a...

Margret had got this far in her second letter, but could never get a syllable farther, and as I think it a pity to finish waste the paper (money being very scarce) I will finish it to you. I suppose mama told you what a pleasant journey we had down, & how much we were delighted with the sofas...

From your not writing by the last mail I suppose that poor little Pat has taken the measles, but even if she has I think you might have written or have made Mr R. do so, for as you were not well when you wrote last we cannot help feeling a little mortified uneasy at your silence. We received a...

I have just received your letter, and have left off making the prettiest trimming that you ever saw to answer it; I am making a trimming for my plain book muslin, after one that Margret has just received from Baltimore, I cannot describe it to you but, I assure you it is the prettiest thing...

This is the fourth day that we have been expecting the carriage and it has not yet arrived nor have we heard from you by post, and, although the delay has been a very seasonable one, as I will convince you presently, still we cannot help feeling a little uneasy at your misterious silence; we...

I have been intending to write to you every week since I have been here, but really I have not had time, for all my old schoolmates have been to see me, and what with receiving and returning their visits, I find my time so completely occupied, that I have not been able even to write to John....