Thursday evg.
Dearest Body
I am sorry you are fretting about Papa. He really has had a very good day today & begins to believe a little in the ice again. How comf. your journey was. I believe a lone girl by using her eyes can always get female companions.
How charming the place sounds with the rushing brook. Of all things I should like a brook. Papa is not the least annoyed with the workmen in the house. I called on Mary Hills today & found a young Fleming sitting with her (downstairs) looking so smiling & sheepish exactly like a lover tho' it can't be with that poor little corpse. The kittens have taken to inside the box & find it so nice that they have slept there 6 hours today, how much longer I don't know. I have got them in now. Poor foolish Granny has just been ruffling all her fur at an innocent watering can on the walk. It is a dismal black North wind quite a change. Friday mg. A capital night but not quite so brisk now.
Odious weather. He puts on the little bag in addition now without being chilled.
Mr Barrat is here doing the windows at least arranging & weighing them.
I have all along rejoiced at your going my dear Tell Hope to give you a great deal of Welch mutton to fatten you up—
Return Asa Gray. I am shocked at him about Jefferson D.
Status: Draft transcription
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