Anne Warren Weston

“ The Chapel is little, but we are good pushers.
I have made up my mind to send this by Hatch [2] & shall send with it, the patterns, drawings I mean, & your collar which I mean to catch Caroline long enough to buy for I cannot take these vast responsibilities. Mrs Loring (?) came to me the other night I asked if I could not come & stay a day or two with her before I left Town. I told her I should like to, so if she sends a definite invitation I shall go; be the matter how it will, I suppose I shall go home some time the latter part of next week. ”

“ Dickens is surprised at finding every thing so like England, society & all. The folks he goes among are the very folks who are imitating English society. He has been invited to 40 different houses & every instance of their time is occupied when not in company with trying to answer notes & letters.
Caroline staid here all night & we had a cosy time. Thursday morning was a pouring rain. Nevertheless, she left for Roxbury & we had a quiet still day here nobody in till late in the afternoon when Bradburn & Rogers called. ”

“ I spent part of the $5 you paid Ma for my white bonnet so I took of my annuity to pay this. I enclose a note of Elaine (?) Leary's to me which as containing their slate (?) under their own hand & (?) ll you may like. I hope you will like the collar. ”