Front: Noah Webster letter to Emily Ellsworth, 1840 August 8

New Haven Augt. 8 1840

Dear Emily.

I am told that your Emily is
gone to Saratoga & expects to return & pass
Commencement week with Mary. Mary has
had a great party to celebrate the marriage of
her brother Ezekiel, & yesterday a great dinner
for her friends, two of whom, Mrs Hays, & Caroline
[Tonbridge?], have just returned from Barbadoes.

Your mother is feeble, but keeps about in
family affairs as usual. Rosalie has made
nothing of getting up - she is about the house.
But she occupies our best chamber, & only
spare bed. After commencement, William goes
to housekeeping, in the Cottage, north of the canal.
It seems expedient for us, old people, to be able
to enjoy more quiet, than we now can, & we want all
our rooms.

Julia & family are now pretty well. A great
many of thier friend will be there at commencement,
as two or three classes are to assemble.

I have found means to finish my Dictionary, without
borrowing of the banks, in the usual way, & I hope it
will be completed by January. I had, the other day,
a batch of Methodist ministers from New York & the
west, bestowing great praises on my book, & urging
me to issue proposals for publishing my Synopsis of