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think it is improving now. I rise at four in the morning
drink camelile tea, take a good deele of exercise, and pay {?}
attention to my diet. By this course I am tolerable comfort-
able. I think we all look the same as when you saw us. We
have had an intive change of servants with the exception of
hannah and her children. William Elie Dugless S'- We have
two young gentlemen living with us at this time reading
law, one is a son of Govenor Midcalf who is is a great
drole, he prides himself on being odd. The other is a common
good natured soul, as well as a gentleman. They ocupy the
room in the old office that you and Harrison slept in.
The grape vines in the garden look very well this sum-
mer, we have the prospects of plenty of fruit this year.
The yard is beautifull, every shrub has put forth
flowers of its kind. The trees and shrubbery has grown--
very much. The wild grape you set out is flourshing, I
never pass it, that I do not think you. The haw trees and
mulberrys are now hanging full of fruit. The lain
and all in it stand as when you were here. I have a farwell
verse that you left sticking under a pirture fraim over
the mantlepiece in your room at the office. Poor Fanny
Ray and myself went down in a day or so after you left
us to look at your roome, we were feasting our eyes at
every thing that was laying just as you left them.
Fanny was the first to see the paper. We read it, and I put
it in my pocket book and there it is yet.
Property has raised in value in this county very much
Your Uncles land and residence would at this time bring a han
som price. He speaks of resigning his Judge ship and going to the
south this winter to practice law, but I expect it will be
all taulk. Robert also says as soon as he can wind up his
business in this place he will go to some new cun
-tery where he can make a fortune. He was here yesterday
a few moments, I told him I would write to you to day, he then
requested me to give his love to, and say he had a letter
partily writen to you which he would finish as soon as
he could and send you. Elizabeth is well, but I have not
seen her for, I think, three weeks. her fathers family has
been in retched health all summer, and she has been much
of her time there lately. I hope you have got all the letters
writen to you by us for the last three months or more