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will forgive me and I will try to be more faithful as soon as I get more settled. Monday Feb. 16. Cold, wild and stormy as this morning is without, all is calm and quiet within. A warm fire is burning in the stove, and all look chearful and happy. Anne sits busily knitting by my bedside; she sits in my room most of the time, when she is not at her bath? work, and if I want any little attention she needs but to know it, and I have it. I accomplished a good deal last week that I have not yet told you of. I went into Miss S's room again on Thursday, but it did not make me sick as it did on Tuesday; and as the next morning I felt so well, I thought I would like to go up into the Reading room to attend Worship; I expected that this would be considered as rather a mild notion by the Authorities, Mrs. H., Miss G. and Ann, whose permission I was obliged to have before I could take such a rash step. It seemed as if it would be almost useless to try when I first thought of it, but I succeeded finely?, as you will see. I commenced at Ann when she was giving me my morning bath; I coaxed and teazed her awhile and at last she consented, and went and asked Mrs. Kellogg. This was all before breakfast; when they had gone down to the diningroom, Mrs. H and Ann took me up and fixed me in a chair in the reading room! Oh, my sisters, I wish you could feel for a little while, as I felt that morning. My cup was almost full,