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--- having thanked her for her politeness and saying it would give him pleasure in any way to contribute to her pleasure, he was about to add something more when Annie touched his toe with her own under the table, intimating that he had said enough, and he left off there. And here we will say that no one who has a sensable wife can be too grateful for these marital telegraphic dispatches. ---- ---- ---- --- "and yet I hate to hear anything to the disadvantage of any around me, for I never feel afterwards precisely as I did before. It takes time to wean out these inlanders-spots on the memory."

St. Paul July 25th 1857

Dear Mother

Above I send you a little more of the Modern Pilgrims. Enclosed I also send you a few items from The Times and its correspondent F (Flint they call him(?) Thought I would not let so good an opportunity