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poor, have lived in many different places, have but one child, a girl seven years old; she has buried three. She seems very much like the Stevens'. looks like Aunt Conant and you, has lost her teeth and looks old; she is good as she can be, but no faculty for housekeeping - to make much out of a little so necessary for a poor physician's wife. I did not eat a decent meal there, in appearance not even a neat one. She shewed me a piece of her poetry in the paper, so I cut it out, told her I would send it to you; it does not do her much credit however,

  Lucy is teaching, has one room in a large Union school for boys, small in her room, receives 50$ per quarter, boards at Jerusha's. She has very agreeable manners, attracts much attention from Gentlemen has a perfect form and figure as I ever saw. She does not look old, is handsome. To her affair with Baldwin she does not allude, has not at all to her sisters; says she shall never marry. says there are few girls great enough to be old maids; she is fond of the society of gentlemen in a general, social way,  makes herself very agreeable, more natural easy and pretty than Lizzie Doe I think, seems to be a favourite, and her acquaintance seem to be of a good class. Of the three weeks I was there, but two evenings except Sundays, passed without calls and visits from gentlemen, alone or in company with ladies, or that we did not go out. We had two skiff rides up the Muskingum, by delightful moonlight, Lucy and I and two gentlemen- and two walks on neighbouring hills. One of Lucy's cronies, a sort of beau general, intelligent, & pleasing, a baptist professor, lawyer, son of a senator, was in more than half the evening I was there, read loud to us four evenings, in a new book

[left-hand side] I had my new cloak silk made while at Zanesville and turned my light silk so that it is just as bright and handsome as ever: