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don't forget to remember me to Mrs. Shelton the Steamer Senator arrived yesterday 89 days out I got a paper as late as the 10th March and have read the Presidents Message in unclear April 22 1819

Dear Sister

Now for adventures Em, both by sea and by land. I have just this minute returned from one of the most delightful rambles that it is possible for you to imagine for the last 3 hours I have been moving through large groves of Orange and Lemon trees bending under the weight of their delicious fruits that are now in a state of perfection. picking them with my own hands and loading my pockets until I was unable to carry more. Wont you you think that I am a great Pig But I am not for I have been particularly careful to remember advice and eaten but very little fruit. In a letter that I wrote to Father and Mother the day I arrived & at a time when I was crazy with excitement, but which may not arrive until after this, I informed you all that I was in perfect good health. Fat Black and lazy., with only one desire, wanting to make me a perfedctly happy and contented. unclear that is to hear from you home and know that you are all well. We had a fine passage here. My seige of sea sickness being light compared with most of the rest and entirely disapearing in 3 or 4 days, thus proving to a demonstration that Uncle William is nothing but a false Prophet