p.

of course thirty, by your impatience to reach me
and let us add, the badness of the road, though
that is a prosaic descent. The stages are new and
commodius and John Gould does not persade that
road, so you will only be at Albany seven hours
and a half from Delhi. The last eighteen miles
is not so bad, only hilly and rough like all this
detestable Delaware. A carriage ride cost you from
twelve to eighteen dollars, sent to [Emmonses]. It
could bring three persons and one trunk or two
persons and two trunks. Other trunks can be sent
by stage for a dollar apiece. The sending of a
carriage to Hancock price $18. to 20.

We found our dear boys well and