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Simflor? mountain pass with a Vitteiro?, a comfortable four horse carriage, making easy journeys and stopping nights. The Diligence or public stage-coach is not so convenient or safe and travels all night.

    I am glad to hear so favorably of Father & Mother, & that you are all doing so well.  Hope Anna & Frank have gone or will go to New Hampton, & revisit?.  Elizabeth & the children will enjoy the visit with them so much.  Wish others of you could also go.  Trust you will before long.  We cannot yet tell where we shall go or when return.  Our present plan is to go through Switzerland, then Germany, Netherlands, Belgium to Paris about the middle of August, then to England, &c, & start for home sometime in October.  But we may change it.  Should the Ed. Soo? need me in the School I may return sooner; if not we may yet to to Palestine should Mr. Thompson's health improve.  I shall know better about it soon.  At first our letters were detained in London by mistake.  Since then we receive them quite regularly.  By way of Paris I received letter from uncle Nathl. Roberts of Rosa, asking me to visit them.  I have written him in reply.  I shall surely visit them with great pleasure, if I can.  How I wish some of you could go with me to see them.  Cynthia, you have corresponded with them so much, you ought to go with me, and if you and Jennie or Mary will meet us in •, I will surely go with you.  Can't some of you come out this Summer, & so visit Wales with me, & then accompany me home?  I know you would enjoy it if you could.  And I wish Elizabeth could go with you.  I should be willing & glad if she could.  But perhaps it is too late.  Please do not write to Elizabeth this it would trouble her as she could not go now.  I may be that we can go some other time.  How much better I should have enjoyed this journey if some of our family had been with me.  Still it has been very pleasant & useful to me.  With much love to all.

Yours Truly, J.J. Butler