Manuscript letter

Archives Number: 1011/002.001-021#049

Craigie House
Friday.
Dear Emmeline,
I trust this finds you safely returned to your own roof & [crossed out: finding] all under it as well as when you left. Most grateful was I for all the time you gave me, & our Sunday drive will long linger like a perfume in my memory. This sounds very sentimental but it is nevertheless true, as all real sentiment is, in fact the truest thing in life even to the most incredulous.
Mary arrived the very mor [p. 2] ning you left, & at about the same hour & was exceedingly sorry to be so near seeing you & to miss you. The coachman drove her from the Dèpot up Park St instead of Beacon St or she thinks she would have seen you. She wished very much you could have delayed another half day but understands the necessity of your return & that you were already behind your allotted time. She breakfasted at papas & came out here about ten – looking as miserably thin as when here before, but, I think, rather stronger & less nervous, full of agreeable talk [p. 3] & much enjoying the quiet of this mansion. Eva looks charmingly with her sentimental face & curling locks, & Angus is a nice little boy but very pale & thin, poor fellow, from his W. Indian life. I hope to fatten them all. Miss Davie is a very agreeable person, quiet & cheerful, & not at all in the way. She enjoys so much the green grass & the homely familiar flowers after the satiety of tropical splendor. They had a tolerably comfortable passage & arrived in N.Y just the day after the Merlin on that very Sunday afternoon we were together.
[p. 4] Robert & Ronny came down to St Thomas’ to see them off. We have hopes of the Sidney Brooks to join us at Newport as they are looking for rooms.
I went yesterday to Mrs Twisleton’s wedding visit. It was a very hot day & the ladies looked prettily in their Spring attire. The bride was very handsome in orange silk with skirt open in front, but I must leave this ground to Anna Ticknor. I have scratched off this much with a pen like a pin merely to tell you of Mary thinking you would like to know how I found her. With love to the chicks & to Wm
ever yr loving
Fanny E.L.

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