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Battenville NY Aug 28th 1839

Dear Susan

I believe your folks at Center Falls
are not going to write any more to you. And I that
part of your folks at Batten ville. Will drop a line
just to keep you from going clean off with the blues
I was at your house yesterday after noon (the fact is I
go there quite often lately). And Gula talked of writing to
you to send in mail tomorrow morning. But it is
now night I have recd no word from there and
when the mail comes in the morning I shall
have no time to write. I will therefore write a
little and if G-- has any thing to offer send
that too. Your folks are all well. And in ---
refference to other things I would beg [?ean?] respectfully
to inform you that though Batten ville Fair is to
held on Wednesday next. And further, that the
Center Falls, or Hardscrabble, affair is to come
off on the Thursday the 11th of Sept unless
something should transpire to cause a change of
the time. In relation to route which the "Bride" &
"Groom" will take after that, the probabilaty is it will
be to the westward. The fact of your being at New
York is an inducement for going that way and the
only inducement. And there are a great many objections,
more than I can innumerate. I hinted at one in a
former letter. I don't know what day Nancy has
fixed upon for her Exit. Either the 17th or 24th.
The affair at the Point is to be on the 17th but
all this is strictly Confidention of course.

[Left margin]
The mail has come but no letter from you or any body else