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I have just received your letter and write you a few lines
by the return of the mail to explain why you have not yet seen F.
Gwathemey and myself. Last Saturday I got a letter from Frances,
saying she found she had been too hasty in fixing upon a day to come
up, having some matters which would still detain her, (though she
hoped but a few days longer) in Richmond. I wrote her that the cars
now passed the U.y so that she need not get out at the Depot and that
if she would write you when she was coming that you and Dr. H.
would be in waiting at McKennie's Book store to receive her. As E.
Douglas will be coming home the middle of next week I suspect she
will come at the same time. She said if it was agreeable to us she
would like to bring little Frank Moore also with her which I of
course most willingly consented to. Dr. Brainerd I see is coming to
Charlottesville next week. Mr. R. and I intend to go up Tuesday to
see him and hear his lecture that night in the Baptist Church. You
voteries of science will no doubt be much amused at our faith and
credulity. But what cannot do harm is worth trying if it may perchance
do good. I hope F. will arrive to come out with me the next
day. How I envy you the treat which no doubt you will enjoy tonight
in attending the concert of Ole Bull in Charlottesville. The horses
have gone to Scottsville and the roads are torrible or I should have
begged Mr. R. to have sent me in today.
The arrangement made to fill the chair of Mathematics is no
doubt the best till the end of the session. I hope with you that Mr.
Tutwiler may get the appointment when one is made. I am sorry you
have been so late in getting your pork. There is so much more risque-that
it may be injured by the fly when it is not completely cured
by the time they first make their appearance in February. I must
conclude as to Carter's Bridge is a long walk for our mail boy Isaac
to take after dinner. Remember me to Mrs.R. Harrison and all the
rest around you. I hope Papa is well. I fear he has one of his colds
or I think he would have written to me this week.
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