p.

expenditure of blood & treasure, it will
be more than lost, if that foul blot is
not effaced - for this I pray -

Uncle Timothy was taken
quite suddently ill last first day -
he is now confined to the bed - very feeble
but does not suffer pain - his old lung
difficulty seems to be the trouble - but I
hope he will get up again - he is a very
pleasant child like old man - & we should
miss him very much - Aunt P. & G.
are neither of them very well this winter.
I think she would be much pleased
with a letter from thee - & so would
uncle T. no one enquires after my
scattered flock, with more interest,
than he does - Eben Stevens's
wife has been very sick with the pleu-
risy for a week - she has seemed very much
as thy father did, only she has had much
more pain - she has not been able to get
any good sleep - but she is now thought
to be a little better - our little Jane

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has been there a few days - just as
kind & good as she always is - but she
thinks she must go home first day I
suppose to prepare for the 4th of march
ball at Hammetts' - it is said that
Austin Templeton & Mary are to go
to the village on that day & be married
& come back to the ball - John Hatha-
way & Julia Foster - Edwin Foster & Fanny
Clark are to stand up with them - Austin
Foster & Abby Hamblin, Charles E.T. & Sarah
Hamblin are to be of the co. & I do not
know who else -

Robinson Tabor is in Montpelier jail -
Robinson Moulton sued him for some
butter that he sent to him in Boston -

I do not think a great many regret
R. T.'s being checked in his pompous ca-
reer - I have not yet got to feeling
much pity for him - his family & friends
have had to suffer so much for his
bad deeds -