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   Your good letter was very welcome as I should ha[[ve]] told you upon its reception. Time and thoughts are so freely occupied that letter writing is Tues. evening -- I must not leave you longer without a line -- The weather makes us in a measure indolent. Today is a home July day -- but forever a week previous the weather has been charmingly cool. To be sure I still slept with all windows open -- but was never uncomfortably warm. Now I am constantly in a perspiration My health is still good, and my work delightful. My boys [[?]]  
   Your good letter was very welcome as I should ha[[ve]] told you upon its reception. Time and thoughts are so freely occupied that letter writing is Tues. evening -- I must not leave you longer without a line -- The weather makes us in a measure indolent. Today is a home July day -- but forever a week previous the weather has been charmingly cool. To be sure I still slept with all windows open -- but was never uncomfortably warm. Now I am constantly in a perspiration My health is still good, and my work delightful. My boys [[?]]  
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[[illegible]] Perhaps I am wrong in the names, and that the ball itself is the pistil I have asked no botanist I wish Jennie could tell me, but you can see the parts I hope they will not all turn brown before they reach you.
stem off  Perhaps I am wrong in the names, and that the ball itself is the pistil I have asked no botanist I wish Jennie could tell me, but you can see the parts I hope they will not all turn brown before they reach you.

Latest revision as of 14:58, 21 October 2020

Charleston, May 11? annotation 1860s /annotation My dear Mother

  Your good letter was very welcome as I should have told you upon its reception. Time and thoughts are so freely occupied that letter writing is Tues. evening -- I must not leave you longer without a line -- The weather makes us in a measure indolent. Today is a home July day -- but forever a week previous the weather has been charmingly cool. To be sure I still slept with all windows open -- but was never uncomfortably warm. Now I am constantly in a perspiration My health is still good, and my work delightful. My boys ? 

in left margin stem off Perhaps I am wrong in the names, and that the ball itself is the pistil I have asked no botanist I wish Jennie could tell me, but you can see the parts I hope they will not all turn brown before they reach you.