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March 6th 1843 Chapel Hill
{1844}

My Dear Husband,

According to promise, I will now try to
amuse you for a few moments, tho' I have nothing of importance
to communicate. - I received your letter of the 26th on Saturday
and was very sorry to learn by it, that I had suffered you to
be uneasy about home, when I could so easily have prevented it.
I gave you my reasons for not doing so, in my last, & I hope you
are reconciled, if you have received that long epistle. -- I was sorry
too that you had been suffering with cold & hoarseness, I trust
however that you are as well as ever --

We have enjoyed very good health since you left, certainly there
has been a few cases of cold with the children - but they did not
mind it - I think I never saw them more lively than they
have been lately. I told them on Friday that I would give them
their Christmas candy- [stew] & they might invite the two little boys
from Mr Greens & the three Moores - they all came & as it was
a lovely moonlight night, they did not incommode me at all
& they all seemed as happy as they could have been made.
I expect, that I am almost as much benefited by the good weather
we have had, as any one - it enables me to be rid of a considerable
portion of noise, as not only Mary & Junius stay out a great
deal - but even little Wesley - O! he is the sweetest yet!!!! -
He continues to fatten & grow - is very lively & is prettier - much prettier
than when you saw him - and withal is a better boy ---
This morning I went out to see some friends- among the number, was