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is of a milder type than usual. I hope thou writes
to & hears from [Robt.?] E. occasionally. he is likely to lose his
boarding place, Lucy having concluded to remove to [Virginia?]
& open a boarding house. he has engaged [hard?] with the
Hawley's - Lucy's sister in law & he seems pleased with the
prospect as he must relinquish his present home which
of course he would prefer to going among strangers. The
tone of his last letter to me indicated some degree of discourage-
ment from the slow progress he is making in gaining the
notice & employment of publishers. He had a proposition from
[S?] his instructor, to go with him to Cincinnati but
the council at home protested so strongly against it that
he has relinquished the prospect. He will be likely to remain
in NY till the warm weather approaches. I saw James
Frost a few days since who [gave?] me an item of intelligence
which I know will rejoice thee as it did us - that [underline]his[/underline]
[Hallett?] Thom's son James had settled all his old debts & that H. is
now in easy & good circumstances. H. is as earnest a
Spiritualist as ever & that reminds me of Francis [Bradbury?]
who is thought to be near the transition from heart
disease - and our little Isaac has had another attack
of that alarming disease. the Dr. told him he must not
follow farm work so he has removed to Vergennes &
reengages in the [hams?] factory. Calvin also leaves
us this spring so we are left to look up new & untried
help. I suppose some other of the family has told thee
of Ann & the children being here to spend a short vacation.
they go back a week from this morning if all is well.
We are much pleased to see the good effect of the change