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but I should not feel myself justified in accepting it for various reasons - one is I have not spent more than half of the 100, you sent me a year ago - no not one quarter of it for myself - I grudge feel that money ought to be us'd for some better purpose what I spend for myself - I love and enjoy travelling very exceedingly but the benefit cannot be so much at my age - as my mind & memory are so much impair'd - I'm so soon to pass away - I cannot have the pleasure of enjoying over & over again by recollection what passes now as what pass'd when I was younger Still I think I have just as keen a relish for whatever is beautiful & good but my mind is like a seive every thing passes thro' and is gone - I have as much satisfaction in reading perhaps more than I ever us'd to but I cant remember so as to tell over what I read I have lately been reading over & over "Saturday Evening" & enjoy'd it much especially the last part of it Oh! dear how I always do get to writing about myself its all I, I before I am aware of it Bea Brown died last sabbath I call'd on Mrs. Lee on my return from Brownville she expects her three sisters to visit & her Brother at Bucksport who with herself are all over seventy I believe