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self-reproach.

My allusion to trials of this na-
ture together with what thou knowest of the children
will furnish a pretty full reply to some of thy
queries respecting them. They are all dear to me,
but I do not wish to have any management
of them. Fanny learns temper of the others, but
is a very interesting child, and makes sport
for all the family.

Thy first mention of our mutual
acquaintances, is of W. & N. Clark, and of Ann's
ill health. I hope you soon went to see them,
and in such a visit, I would gladly have
joined you. They have been frequently on my
mind, and yet I think not often at the time
of writing, and I wondered at it afterwards
and wished I had conveyed to thee my kind
remembrance of them. When writing to any
one in my long loved home, those whom I
had been most accustomed to see there, of
course would present to my mind most
readily, but Nancy is often remembered.

How has Ann been as regards her spir-
its, pretty much resigned, or unconscious of
her danger and alarmed? I hope W. & N. retain their health,
and that their son is doing well; and that
Michal's family are prospering.

It is a great blessing to your family
that thou art able to keep at the helm, and di-
rect the movements of the vessel, but it seems
wonderful to me, and I look at the improve-
ment in thy health, like that of my own, as al-
most a miracle, and thank Heaven that