At Home March 24th 1850 )
Dear Mary,)
I at this moment seat myself for the
purpose of answering your last favor that duly came
to hand sometime since and owe you an apology in
failing to answer it on early date - but having had
heretofore - nothing worth communicating in regard to our
family and friends have deferred it to the present moment.)(Which must plead my apology." I have now the pleasure of
informing you on the 18 Inst - Your Mother - presented me
with another little Miss Julia or Miss - (about which we
are undetermined) and is quite as well as could be expected
which is all and every thing that has transpired in our own
little circle of any interest. As everything now a days goes
by Telegraph - at least with us - I suppose it would be neither
new nor of much interest to inform you of our Judge (______)"
wedding that came off on Wednesday night last past at
Prayer Meeting - Baptist Church - Richland - to Miss Cook - all
of that place. Enough of this. Your brothers Mat and Jerry
are going to school at Richland - under rather favorable
auspices - school has some character and I hope for its welfare
but would just add by way of information - that so far as
I am told - the female school seems not to flourish much in
point of numbers - say some 30 pupils. I am much pleased
from time to time to receive so favorable reports of yr. or rather the
school of our mutual friends Holt & Wear - both as to number &
This argues much for the Institution - and whilst I feel a deep
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Gage Family Collection, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
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