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 annotation Date: between early in February and July 19, 1852 /annotation

My Dear Sisters:

  We have at last got a letter from you. We had been looking for a letter for a long time, every night we thought we surly would get one that night but no, no letter came. You were not very well I fear. Mary will have to be very careful or she will be sick again. Miss Colegrove finished a dress she was making for Sarah to night.  Cousin Elizabeth tried it on, it looked quite pretty. We have not heard from Sarah for some time,  but hope to soon.  Do please to forgive me for not answering your last note.  I have no excuse to give at all.  But I hope to be more punctual in answering your letters after this.  I can not see how I could let you stay there so long before I wrote one word.  Only think of it, Jane was gone almost a year and I did not even write one little note to her.  Jane appeared to be quite anxious we should study french, we have been trying to study it a little but did not make much headway at it though.  Edward Josiah says he will write as soon as he finds time.  He wants me to tell Jane "they have to work hard all day from morning till night.  He has to set from a page and a half to two? pages a day."  The Cenhadwr  is just coming out and they have quite a busy time of it.  We had two weddings here last night.  A man by the name of Smith came first they came a little before six, we had not quite finished our supper.  They came rather sooner than we expected.  They did not stay but a very short time, just long enough to get tied together.  Then some time after they had been gone, some Thomas Evans from Penymynydd and Hannah Davis, David Davis' daughter came.  They were both Married in english.  I wish you could have been here, dont you?

I have got a very poor pen to write with so you must excuse the looks of this. It is some time after nine now so I guess I must stop for to night.