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new state house now building after the design of W. Strickland being a tasteful & correct piece of architecture of white limestone & when completed will cost near a million dollars -- At Mr [T?]'s I spent the evening enjoying the domestic comedy in which Mrs [T/F] & her daughter enacted the principal character. Mrs F is a lady of sixty who apparently desires to make herself excessively agreeable & supposes herself to possess "great conversational powers" & to be highly "intellectual" & perfectly au fait in all the maneuvers & [blank space] of fashionable life having been frequently to Washington & [left margin possibly missing words] looking forward to seeing her husband a political "magnifico"---she wears a turban & displays a great extent of forehead, or rather "front integument" from either side of which depends [the?two?] rusty coloured curl of some length, a scarf thrown over a rather low silk dress which hangs on a thin & "jerky" figure of commanding height with a large fan twirled by three fingers & a pair of net-[unclear: nits?] complete the external -- On entering, the lady makes an antediluvian curtsey & throws herself into a chair in a neglige tho'studied attitude, one foot being thrust slightly forward, the other withdrawn and the arms "contrasted" having "posed" a benignant smile graces the lower portion of her face & an intellectual spark is forced from her eyes - Her conver