(seq. 30)

New Rochelle Jun 21.1337
First daymorning

Esteemed
Although I have received no letter from
you this or rather last week, I last night apenede most
a precious packages of letter, billets, raisins, cegar [?] malotres etc.
from the old masions, ^al C. Fralls. [?] P cried & laughed,
felt glad & sorry all together. P also secured a paper from
P., last Second day morning, when P put the last letter in
the office. [P?] seems as if P can hardly be sufficiently
[Hurrkful?], for the ma^n y messages of live, I have, since
my stay in Rochelle, received from my most dear friends
in C. F. & B. With respect to the Theodore scrape. I do not
exactly understand Father, about the firing husing; who
received the sum of the fine on behalf of community? & who
is to receive that ^for which, he , Theodore is [?] now before the
supreme court, if I should be decided against him ?
Do let me know ^the particulars relative to the [decisiory?] as
[loan?] as convenienly - I very much upset I could not have
seene Uncle B. Reade [?] would have seemed like once m[?]
beholding the [sainter?] form of that dear Grand [?]ther, who
left the shade of earth & winged his way to those brighter sealing where
[happened?] dwells without alloy when this heast was far away from the
loved home circle so apart from all convexing, &are one lene
Sisters, who helped to cheer ^those lonely ^house of separation but now I have
no loved sister with ^to whom I can freely open all my heart & in whom
to confide all my little grief, I can place a great deal of con-
fidence of E. yea almost the same as if she were a sister, yet she is
not one that makes the difference Tell D. R. by all means,
to avoid smashing cigars, for I would not have smoke or how
to [hacea?] for under an circumstances. I thank him for my presents.