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Rochester July 6, 1860

Dear Friend
Ann King

It was very pleasant to
receive a few lines from thee my dear friend,
we seldom meet, and seldom hear from
each other, and although we know the thought
telegraph is ever bright between us, a paper
messenger, does bring us more tangibly near.

I wish thee would write to Cousin Phebe
Haviland, I really think she is a wonderously
fine woman, very few equal to her. her sweet
liberal or charitable influence is perceptable
not only in her own beautifully regulated family,
but however she goes. She has not got her wise
eyes open in all things, but is gradually leav-
ing some of the several superstitions of the
past. She told me last winter when there, that
she had been a few times to hear Henry Ward
Beacher preach, which did a little supprize me.
She also supprized me by speaking approvingly