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become as useless and frivolous as the majority of the girls are about us. I think Gertrude is a good girl, and governed by underlined: principle although of course she is childish, and full of "imperfections, still she is a real comfort to us- Our little "sun beam", is not well just now, and I am going to the Dr's with her this afternoon- her appetite is very poor and she seems weak, and what is very unusual with her is peevish and irritable, and has a great deal of head ache- But I hope the Dr will give her something to set her right very soon. Now don't you think I have said enough about my own affairs? But after all what can I write about, that will interest you more than my own family, of whom you have been kept in ignorance so long? I need not say anything about political matters, for you are