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till soft, then strain through a coarse cloth or sieve, taking care not to get too much of the apple itself through, - not much beside the juice, then add a pint of sugar to a pint of juice and boil half an hour or so, till, on cooling, it thickens - the apples want to be just covered with water - loaf sugar makes nicer than brown. It is nice. I would make a little, A tumbler of some such thing is great comfort in sickness. Isaac's letters are in future to be directed to Du Quoin, Perry Co. as that is to be his location for the present. I hope you will write to him often - we have all written, but in his last he said he had recieved no letter yet. How soon is Charles coming? It seems to me if Anne stays here this winter, you ought to be here too, as she may go away in the spring, and you not have so good a time to be with her again very soon. Samuel is going to have a horse and ? this winter, so I guess Anne and I will occasionally take passage with him as far as Milo and Brownville when he goes into the woods. We can go one at a time you know. Mond. P.M. Made some cranberry jelly this forenoon, that we may have the wherewithal to make "jerry cake." The vestry of the third church is plastered