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Jan. 25-31
Dear Mat [Leitch] has gone. She breathed her last on the 25th about 2 o'clock PM. How hard to see our friends snatched away by death's hand but we mourn not as without hope for she knows in whom she he giveth his beloved sleep.
The storm that wrecks the wintry skyNo more disturbs her deep repose
Write to Brother Peter, also to Sally Williamson. A letter from Miss V telling Lizzie Dee there is no chance for her getting home as the track to Keswick is now broken so we may count on having our cousin Lizzie Dee with us for some time longer much to my joy. Cousin Skinner Minor to breakfast with us this morning. His mind is in a very wandering state. His friends intend taking him to Baltimore ....Get a mail on Thursday for the first time since the 17th. Feel great aggravation not having had any news for more than a week. Tom Maury's sentence, 70 years like the last two for our Southern honor, is a hard one. I heartily hope although his reputation may suffer that his calculations are inaccurate. Finish a revised and corrected edition of my Family Tree.
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