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No49. -------------------------------------------------Brookline, 22 March, 1810.

Dear Parents,

As I predicted, my present letter
is to announce to you the joyful tidings, that Lucy
is safely confined with another daughter. To par
ents it will be expected, that I shall be some
what particular in detailing circumstances,
though as Eliza writes, it will probably be a
story twice told; yet I may possibly mention
some circumstances, which escape her recollec
tion or knowledge.

Lucy had waited so long beyond the
1st of March, that she became almost impa
tient for the great event to arrive. Her nurse,
a poor woman, was fortunately sent for by a wo-
man in Roxbury, who had not previously engaged
her, and there she has staid 3 weeks of our
engagement, so that she will sustain no loss
by waiting for us.

Monday afternoon, the 19th, Lucy
was so disagreeably affected with the heart burn,
that she took, of her own accord, while I was
gone to the Association in Boston, a dose of
epicac. But, she was so fearful of exceeding