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Green Peace to-day, and has already gladdened the children's hearts by some gay tunes, the rags of my antiquated musical repertory.
You will be glad, I am sure, to know that I have one at last, for I have been many months without any instrument, so that I have almost forgotten how to touch one.... My mourning [for a sister-in-law] has been quite an inconvenience to me, this summer.
I had just spent all the money I could afford for my summer clothes, and was forced to spend $30 more for black dresses.... The black clothes, however, seem to me very idle things, and I shall leave word in my will that no one shall wear them for me....
To the same
Bordentown, August, 1846.
... Sumner and Chev came hither with us, and passed two days and nights here.
Chev is well and good.
Sumner is as usual, funny but very good and kind.
Philanthropy goes ahead, and slavery will be abolished, and so shall we. New York is full of engagements in which I feel no interest.
John Astor and Augusta Gibbs are engaged, and are, I think, fairly well matched.
One can only say that each is good enough for the other.
These were the days when Julia sang in her nursery: Rero, rero, riddlety rad,
This morning my baby caught sight of her Dad,
Quoth she, “Oh, Daddy, where have you been?”
“With Mann and Sumner a-putting down sin!”
