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Please say to Samantha I wish her to come to New Rochelle to school. Without fail I think it will be X X than Saratoga.

New Rochelle. 6 mo.15.1839
7th day of X

Dear Sister

Your most acceptable communications were received yesterday the 14, having been three days on the way. A thousand thanks to you for your kindness, in putting off the wedding and parties, and all the good things, until my return home, but do not reserve to[o] much happiness or pleasure until that time, for recollect, it may never be realized, or that the more certain time for enjoyment is the present.

No one can imagine how anxious I have been to receive a letter from some of you, since my arrival in New Rochelle. The mail leaves here at 7, and returns at 10 the same morning. Eunice thinks of making a visit at X X before long. I will let you know in time to send one a sugar X. We took a walk one [day this week] to the shore of Long Island Sound, and how shall I describe the scene. The first glance of the X behold the broad expanse of waters and the far distant villages on Long Island, which seemed like specks in the distance. Shall I say the sight was beautiful or grand? Will that describe it? No, it was sublimely itself, and to a mind unused to such scenes, it seemed like a peep into brighter regions. The sun was X towards the western horizons, and all seemed calm and tranquil, same the momentary wash of the briny waters against the sandy beach, and a gentle breeze from the water, which soothed our fatigued bodies, for we had walked, I should think, nearly a mile and a half. XX quested me to give the particulars, relative to the school