New York July 26/66

Dear & darling Sally -
Thanks to the Good Father
for all thy love & tenderness
truly thou art a blessing - and
Julia has been the greatest
comfort - It is well that so
much sunlight is permitted
for the clouds come one after
another - I have written to
Lucy & told her of thy [?] in
[Philadelphia] and that as she had
set her mark at five weeks
as the extent of her time, I
thought she might be ready to
meet thee - I asked to have
my proposition considered, and
shall depend upon an answer
which shall be sent to Washington
direct, as thy father says
thou will go there tomorrow

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And [William Choate] takes tea with us every Sunday -
Langdell has gone to the Adirondacks & [?]
& other places - has
taken his
Pony &
will [?]
a month
Thy loving
[underlined] Mother [/underlined]

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Julia went to pass today
& tonight with Alice Mae
Mullen - I told thee she had
[?] her little baby after
a 40 hours illness - They
are greatly afflicted, but poor
Alice seems more calm than
her husband - Aunt Mary
passed today with us, with
little May - she say Grandmother
is bright, but she coughs and
has but little strength - All
are well at Aunt Rachels
and [?] on after the old
fashion - I will not
begin to speak of the [Lotors
& Aid?] until I see thee, because
there is much to say
we are getting on bravely and
after some changes are
really making it tell a [?]
the class if it is designed to

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benefit. The Hospital is abandoned -
it was miserably managed
there was really no call for
it. The state Hospital doing
all, and in a far better way
than we could possibly -
I wrote to Mary Cany of Albany
who is in charge of
the State Home, and she
sent me a letter, which I read
to our men in Hospital, and
they were delighted to go - We
got them from Transport, and
sent them comfortably. They
give the best account of it
as do those who went from
The Lincoln Home.

I have very
much to say, which can be said
more effectively when we come
together which will be soon -
I received thy letter by Sun

I am not surprised at
anything from a quarter so
lost to all sense of propriety
I had almost said common
decency - Let it go. “Judgment
day is rolling around,” and sooner
or later we get our deserts
Anne can well afford [?]
from such a quarter.
I wish the peculiarities of others
were [underlined] as [/underlined] agreable

The day Alice
May Mullens baby was buried
Julia & self were introduced
to Mr Putnam’s son - and
a few evenings since he comes
in to pass the evening - he
was pleasant & jolly - has seen
a good deal of the world,
and has so much to tell - he
said he should come soon again
Mr [Kinnicott?] passed an [evening]