[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her daughter, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, February 19, 1816]

Feb. 19th 1816 Your letters my beloved child are always a balm to my heart; it is needless then to repeat, that this of today, which is now before me, was welcome with the truest plea sure. I must say, however, that your punctuality, demands my thanks. How many plausible excuses might you not have made to yourself, and me, if at any time you had neglected to give of our anx ious parent notice of your health and welfare from idleness, or any other procrastinating cause! But thank God! My child has never yet felt the necessity of flying to sub terfuges for the excuses of error, or neglect. Nor will you ever find it necessary my dear, whilst your engenuous and affectionate heart is open to your mother, whose counsel, I must say, you have ever asked, and follow'd. No - there is never a necessity for subterfuge - If ever you should err, and who can be entirely free from error, ask advice from counsel with your mother; for who in this world will listen with a tenderness

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