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[ Mrs. Mary J. Curtis
Hillborough, N.C. ]

Lookout Mt. Tenn: July 4th 1857.

Well, dearest, another word with you,
- rather with you now than with Jinny, tho she
begged me repeatedly to write to her from Chatta-
nooga. I do not care to write to any one else
from here. I can write to _her_ when I get home
if the humor takes me.

We have ^had a pretty successful affair to-day.
A stand & seat were prepared in the woods,
from whence we had a magnificent view of
country far as one could see. We were marsha[lled?]
to the ground in a procession proceded by a
band of music. The exercises [?] opened by a
lesson from Scripture read by Bp. Green. [No,
the singing of Old Hundred preceded this.] The
the [Te?] Deum. prayer by Bp. Cobbs. Gloria
in Excelsis. [Singing by an extempore chior, Bp.
Elliot's wife presiding at a Melodeon which I
had noticed at _my_ hotel, & propsed it shd. [?] sent for.]