New York 1st of 9th Month 1824
Dear Sister
As grandfather expects to leave here today intending to make you a little visit I thought I could not feel easy to let him go without scratching a few lines but I have no news to tell thee for I see no one to tell me any we live very lonely I can tell thee without our dear little girls. we was very much disappointed indeed in not getting a letter on friday but we concluded nothing was the matter or you would have sent one for the captain said father was on board on Saturday the weather seems to be cool I begin to look forward to the time for my little girls to come home. tell them Julia Blaney has got a little brother but she don’t make any fuss with it not half so much as my dear Sarah would I expect, I have felt quite uneasy about Hannah I have heard several times about her looking so thin and pale but I hope it is nothing more than common I hope she is not going into a decline
I have made each of them a little workbag to put their pocket handkerchiefs in, and I expect their father will get something to put in them
Aunt Elizabeth’s leg is very bad yet no better but grandfather can tell you more about it than I can poor old man [obscured] if he gets up there safe once more thee must not look at the [obscured] mistakes in this, for I have to jump up for a pennyworth of something every once in a while [obscured] as soon as [obscured] give my love to my dear little girls and all enquirers and accept a large share thyself
from thy sister Mary Pearsall
Rowland says I must
put up some tea for Mother
I don’t know but that will suit her
as well as any thing I am expecting
thee and my Mother down with the
children [one?] I should think
Elizabeth might come so far
[obscured] I suppose it is
out [obscured]
