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Lexington June 16 th 1835

My dear son
I hope when this reaches you, you will be on your
native shore. Ah! me, I at this moment feel as though I could
reach out my hand over hill and dail, and grasp yours
with a ferver and love that none but a mother can feel.
I wrote to you ten or twelve days since. I thought then,
I would not address you again, untell I should hear from
you. But I have just learnt from the news paper that the
Constitution Frigate will return with Mr Livingston.
In consequence of this fact I feel disposed to write again
to you. In my last I spoke of your Uncles bad health
He is now much better, I may say well, for he is now
able to hold court which is now in session. We have
had continual rains all this month as well as part of
last month. We are in fear and trembling that
the cholera will visit us again. But I hope the Lord will be
mercifull to us and spare that miserable scurge.
Your Uncle received your letter ot the 15th of
April. He was very sick when it came to hand. I was me-
lancholey after reading it. I am sorry to find that when
your hear-un are that remindes you of gon by days, that
the next impression is, that your relatives do not love
you. If you will come and visit us this summer you
will lose that impression. This thought that perhaps you
will not go to sea again. until fall, if it should be
so, you will I hope come home if it is your power. You
will see some change in our City since you left us.
For instance, the turnpike road is finished from this place to
Maysville, main cross streete is turn piked as far as old Mr
McCoys, and the workmen are now at work on the road
from this place to Nicholasville. The steam car is in full
opperation on the rail road from Lexington to Frankfort.
They are also turn piking the road to Georgetown. Our
Colledge is finished as well as the U. S. Bank. We are
building a splendid Catholick Church. Besides all this
there is many dwellings put up since you left us too
tedious to mention.
I will now turn my thoughts home.
I have not had good health for the last three months,of

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