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My Dear Neice Eliza
My heart was
made glad the last week by the reception of your
kind, wellcome letter the more so, as
it had been so very long since I had heard from
any of you, begun to feel that you all had again
croped me from your list of corispondents but the re-
ception of your letter has done away with that feel-
ing, so now I take this early hour to reply, I
wish your mother had added a few lines to yours if
she only knew how very much I should have prized
it I think she would, I often think when I neglect
writing to dear absent friends. I know not how long
the privelege will be granted me to do so either one
or the other may be removed before the reach of our