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I am prompted to send you a line or two this evening. I
have received no letter from you since those of which I have already
told you. I wrote from Watertown July 22d requesting a
cheque. It makes me somewhat anxious about it, that I have heard
nothing of it; and if sent it may have been lost.
We spent yesterday at Trenton Falls, 18 miles from this
place. It is indeed a lovely spot, about which we will talk when
I see you. Last night we attended a party at Col. Jewett's, where
we met some of the most respectable society of the city. I did
not make the acquaintance of any young lady, confining myself to
the gentlemen & the married ladies. Today, I went to Church with
the Jewetts, who are exceedingly high in their Episcopal faith.
This afternoon I have been dozing. We shall stay in this place
until Tuesday. I hope to hear from you soon, my love.
I have thought a good deal about our home affairs. It is
well to go off from one's home occasionally, for then, I think,
the circumstances of domestic life, like a landscape viewed from
a distance, acquire their true proportions. Proximity often distorts
small affairs into undue importance.
I want to see Eliza so much. I hope she will not forget
her pa. Kiss her for her dear little postscript. I trust to read
still batter and longer letters from her, one of these days.
I send you my warmest love, dearest.
Remember me to all my friends & especially to my father
& his family.
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