The sight of a letter from my Dearest Sister & brother to day made me feel happier than I thought any thing could have done just now, & the pleasure was partly unexpected as we did not know of the delay which prevented you from reaching Fredericksburg the Steam boat friday evening,...

I thank heaven that the 4th of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.

I send for Cornelia a little poem, the grasshopper’s ball, to begin her collection.

I have seated myself in the drawing room to write to you my dearest sister, in the hope that a rainy day will prevent my being driven hence before I have half finished my letter, though in good truth there is so little rain falling that I should not be very much surprised if the Marquis himself ...

Written immediately on my return home from the South West Mountains, and addressed to Miss R……h The Mountain tops no more appear All glitt’ring to mine eyes; For me no more they mark the year, Rich in Autumnal dyes. Mountains and Vales that charm’d my view, These I have left behind; But more...