p.

Thomas brought Jane to the first evening's
exhibition & she came here & staid till the
2nd. I had a good visit with her - she is a
pleasant little girl - She went to Austin
T's wedding & to the ball with Alonso Snow -

Eben's wife has got quite smart I believe.
Jesse & Lorinda I hear have nearly completed
a trade with a man in Williamstown ex-
changing their mill for a farm -

Ann writes that there is a report there
that Blanchard cheated government in some
way - but I guess it is a mistake - Abby
was a little better the last I heard -

I suppose a great many feel pleased to
hear that Freemont is again in the field
he, having won the name of Pathfinder
they give him the mountains -

It seems now as if a grand [rush?] was
being made & the crisis must be near -

For weeks past the story of [Davidson?]
& Roanoke &c have been told again & again
but the last journal seemed a little new -
the President's message & the advance of the
grand army of the Potomac - If Mc. C.'s strat-
egy is the cause of this bloodless occupation of
the enemy's strong hold - as aunt Polly [Wring?]
said of a Dr who prescribed for her, brandy
& loaf sugar "he shall be my Dr.

Why do we not hear a word from Henry
does he like his situation? It seems strange
to me that he left the other if he could have
kept it - as it must have been pleasanter.

How does Foster treat him? & how do all the
boys get along? Levi sent word to Jane in a
letter to John Gallison's boy, that Mac. was 5th
Sargent - is Levi promoted by Isaac's leaving?

Thee is very good to write & I hope thee will
not grow weary - Thy own loving Mother -