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Lexington May 8th 1832

My Dear boy

Your letter of the 15th of April came to hand in
eight days, after date, and I am grieved to hear that
a letter, that I wrote you in three or four days after
Mr Christy returned home had not reached you on easter
Sunday.If you have not received it yet I wish you
would let me know immediately, and I will write you
again on the same subject. I should of written to you
as soon as I got your last, but in two hours after
the arrival of your letter Robert came for me to go to
Georgetown to see Mother who was there on a visit,
and was taken very ill, so much so that she was thought
in great danger one week. I stayed with her untill
she was out of danger. She will be well enough in
a few days to come home in a carriage I think.
Mr Christy and Mary [Jane] will go for her, as the
Judge is in Owen at this time. He will hold court
there two weeks this turn. Your Aunt Joanna has
another son. She cannot get a name for him. I expect
she will have to send on to the east for a new fashioned
one. By the by she told me to give her love to
you, and say, she was oblige to you for that long
letter you promised her. Robert thinks strange
of you, for not writing to him. I hope your negligence
is not for the want of feeling. Aunt Betsy accesses
you of passing her in silence in your letter.
She has a great deal of respect for you. I am sorry
if you are indifferent towards her.