Wednesday morning
My dear Sister,
I have just received your letter
assuring me of the safe arrival of my dear
little boy —We are very lonely without him
particularly sister Fan who looks all about
very intently when we call Willie—
I am now engaged in preparing Fred for College
he leaves us the week after next—Tell
Frances the Miss Conklings proved to be
excellent sewers so that I have a prospect
of much less trouble in shirt making
than I had formerly—after Fred comes
Clarence and then when I am left all
alone I intend to take Willie and Fanny
and come to Canandaigua which will
be about the 1^st of October—It seems
to me I have been so hurried the last two
months that I have been perfectly bewildered.
I saw much less of Augustus than I should
have done had we been more alone but I
miss him very much—he was always
ready to go with me any where and

assist me in any way that he could cheerfully
it is hard to be always separated from a child
so dutiful and affectionate but I could bear
even that unrepiningly were i I not constantly
apprehending the evil consequences of a military
life—Should there be a war with Mexico
which I believe is now generally admitted
as probable he is liable at any time to
be sent into active service—Ferdinand
Mumford has been ordered to t Texas
at a season of the year when it is very
probable that the climate will cause
the death of half his regiment—And
this such an unjust war it rivals even
the Florida persecution of the poor Indians.
If any thing could reconcile me to a breach
of the commandment "thou shalt not kill" it
would be a war in defence of just rights
but this wicked appropriation of Mexican
territory at a time when she was thought
too weak for defence admits of no
justification – I am eagerly watching the
papers for a realization of my fears—

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as usual Kiss my boy for me—
I think it must be rather suffocating employment
attending parties in dog days I have more
things to say to you than I shall be able to remember
until October

Before Augustus left he went with me to
call at Gov Throops —We found abundance
of women in the pretty cottage and
Augustus accused me of making an over
long visit—Among the number was
Harriet Martin formerly of Canandaigua
Not knowing she was there I did not recognize
her—I never have seen her without her bonnet
before—She enquired about you and Frances—
Mrs Throop Martin is agreeable chiefly
because she is unpretending—she and the
Gov—took us all over the house which
is very pretty and escorted us about the
Grounds—Mrs Martin her daughter e and
old Mrs Hatch you know—Throop had gone
on a fishing excursion with some friends—We
returned too late to stop at Judge Conklings as
we purposed—I am sorry about Post—but "the
course of true love & c'—Fan says she is not
engaged—so I tell every body—I hope she wrote nothing
to the contrary to Caroline Smith who I am told lost
her letter in the street and had not found it—I was
told the day after—have heard nothing since as Debby
is gone probably—shall not—Bronson and Debby were
married yesterday at 2 oclock and immediately

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together—tell Willie Nat

Unknown

is well and quite
lonesome without him—Aunt Clara
is pretty well again but I think not as well

took the cars for Saratoga—to be absent 4 or 5 weeks
Georgia was left with Lydia—I have heard no
particulars—Did I write that Henry and Clary Miller
visited us a day or two before Augustus left—Clara is
still here is to spend some weeks with Aunt Clara
Mary Seward and she are quite intimate—I like
her appearance much better than Catherine—
Mr Blatchford left the same morning with Augustus
with the pleasing assurance that he should bring
Mrs Blatchford in a week or so—Sister has
a number of new pranks which are very amusing
She and kitty have been eating bread and milk
Mrs Alvah Worden
Canandaigua
AUBURN, N.Y.
AUG 20

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Augustus was to spend one day with the Weeds

x

Catherine Weed

Birth: 1797  Death: 1858-07-03 

Thurlow Weed

Birth: 1797-11-15  Death: 1882-11-22 

and
then go to Boston

x

Boston, MA

previous to going to Florida

x

Florida, NY

—he had
sufficient money from his pay for all his spending
money after he returned from NY—and also for
the excursion to Boston—