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-bors [neighbors] - got a carpet off of the same piece at 75 cts - & after her
another
neighbor one at 62^1/2 cts per yd - Miss Lines is a Yankee & has
lived all her life in New Haven. It was from this very man I got our
carpeting. There are a great many things I really do want - but I hate to
be jockeyed - & have as yet got nothing except those carpets & feel that I was
cheated then. I really am sorry that the parlour carpet held out so
badly. I do not suppose I can match it even if I could recollect the
colour & pattern, if you will let me know I will get some as near it as
I can. Lord ordered the shade for the bust - it will have to be made. If I had
you or William with me I doubt not we could make some capital
bargains. I am myself quite incapable of doing this & the girls are even
worse than I am. I shall look back many a day with regret at the sums
here wasted, it is a little here & a little there. I put down every cent that is spent
or I would be certain I had been robbed. Mrs R. King tells me she has 6 children
with her. I presume she includes her immaculate Son in law & his wife. But
she will not spend as much money as I shall - She stops more with relations
I would rather suffer as I do than tax the hospitality of my husband's
brother. I do hope my darling that I may be able to leave for home by the
middle of October at farthest. One or two weeks may make but a little
difference but I do want to get home so much. It is again distressingly
dry here - the dust is insufferable & for the last few days it has been quite
warm. M^r Woolley has determined to go home on the first of October either
by way of Philadelphia in the State of Georgia or by way of Wilming-
-ton - He seems to have forgotten every other feeling in the love of sight-
seeing
& as he has once been in New Haven does not care to come here again
he is quite satisfied in his Dutch Tavern in Allentown. I do regret very
much your sisters having been kept so stationary. I did want them to go to
Niagara, but they seem quite happy here & are quite well. The little boys [sic]
regular schooling began yesterday - Mallery will begin on the 15^th I hope
the two[-]former may be pushed ahead a little so that I can get on better
with them until your dear Father returns. Lordy says he will
help Mallery with his studies - I have agreed to employ Mrs Lara