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[across top] were boarding is rapidly improving and becomeing [sic] a very beautiful country suburb, of New York City. Give my love and Freds, to Laura, and tell her, we both hope, she will keep well, and be very happy all winter. Remember us kindly to Sutright, I like him for his kind care of dear good, Joe, in his last sickness. With warm love and kisses from Fred Your affectionate wife Julia R. Paulding Dodge.

New York City Oct. 12th 1888 My dear Husband, We returned to our most comfortable and pretty home, here in Harlem, on Monday afternoon. I was ever so glad to get back, to all my home comforts, and and [sic] Frances good cooking, and kind, attentive, thoughtful, care of me. She is indeed, a most faithful and competent servant, in all our household work and duties, and most trustworthy, when we are away from our dear nest of comfort, which the home is; you and Fred, in love and generosity bestow upon me. I am intensely interested, and to a certain extent, anxious, about our dear Sons important début, on Monday night, in the Modern Melo Drama, of Philip Herne. I have no fear of our boy, in his performance of the fine character, of the part he is to play; his conception of the