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We reached this place without accident on Monday to
dinner, after staying two days in Baltimore, where we arrived
on the day we left you before sunset. I have been very busy
running about to the Post Office, Bank, etc. and have concluded
to stop at the Pierre Home, but tho' the Home is excellent we
are not accomodated to our liking as to rooms being compelled
to do without a sitting room or to take a very small one & pay
for ourselves & servant $44 a week. Mrs Pico asked us for two
rooms $50 a week.

Tell Mary Emmet that Eliza Tucker desired me to say
that she would be glad she would stop there & see her sisters.
We dined with them on Sunday last. Besides these, two other
young ladies from Bermuda are their guests. They are a sister
of Tom Hall's & his betrothed a daughter of Mr. Daniel Tucker's—
so that I presumo their house is nearly full.

Tell Dr. Harrison that I hear there will be a dividend
on the Rock Island stock in January, & that the present
low price is imputed not so much to their diminished receipts
as to the purposes of the Directors to lower the price of stock
with a view to speculation, according to the abominable system
so prevalent with New York Directors.

Louisa sends you her love & thanks for all your
kindness, & joins me in love to all around you. I am your
ever affectionate father