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Your brother is well, and geting fat, you would
laugh to hear him taulk of marrying, he vows he
must have a wife. He is yet in love with Elizabeth
Morton and vissites her frequently.

Our family has increased by several the Rev. Mr-
-McMaon Robert and a gentleman by the name of Bouv
-assa, He is a law student. The little office is now full
your brother occupys [ ? ] old roome, and the other
two roomes are filled by the above named gentlemen.
But I think, (if I mistake not) that I have spoke of this to you-
before. Mr B.is a french man except one fourth ind
-ian. His mother is the daughter of a former Chief of the
Potawatomyes, and a french woman. You would be amused
to hear him call himself the savage, the read man, &c &c.
He showes his indin blood very plain you can see it
at the first glance. He was educated in New York.
I spent an evening not long since, at Mr Clarys, it was a
small party given to a young lady who was there on a
visit from Louisville. It was quite a pleasant party. The
young people danced by the musick of the piano. But
Mary Jane was prodidiously vext when time to go home to
find it was raining, and we was compeld to stay all
night. I saw toby there, he was brought to me in the drawing
-room before all the comany to see me. Clary told me he could
not get him to stay with him until the black man dyed
last summer. Toby lay by his corps untill he was carryed to