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                                   Townsend Female Seminary - July 12th '46

Ever dear brother

                               I should have  answered your letter long ere this had I not been waiting to know where I was going  to spend the coming fall and how my time was going to be employed, so that I might inform you in a regard to it, but as I have not ascertained I thought  - it best to wait no longer but write you again when I did. When Raymond left here about three weeks since (he has made me a visit since I have been here) he said he would let me know about it before this time; don't know 

why I have not heard from him. Expect to teach in some Academy, perhaps at Pembroke, perhaps elsewhere. I hardly expected my paper would call forth a letter from you so soon for I began to think you had entirely forgotten me as I had not received anything from you in the form of a letter or paper for so long. Do not - dear brother let your occupation nor others so much take your attention that you cannot occasionally bestow one thought upon a loving sister. O! if you knew how much good your letters do me you would not be thus sparing of them. How often when I have been almost sick and weary of this world have I wished I might be by brother Nathan's side and pour my troubles into his ear and recieve words of kindness and sympathy from his generous heart. How often have we chatted the sorrows of our childhood over together and comforted and strengthened each other in our duties and labors by pointing to brighter days and scenes to come. When I look back upon the past - and review the scenes of trouble and self-denial through which I