PlunkettWmR1850_184712_001

Andover Dec th 1847

Dear Mother

As I am seated by a good
fire and have got my lessons finished
for today and tomorrow's partly got I
reccollected that I promised to write you
about this time so I throw away my books
not throw them out the windows but on to
my table, haul out my portfolio (which is
very handy) and write you a letter. As
I said that I would tell you if I was
homesick any so to keep my word. I will
tell you that I have had the blues al [a] little
but not enough to hurt me much. It was
strange that the first Thursday & Friday
after I came here that I should be looking
South West so often. I suppose father
has told you all about Andover
so there is no use of writing you a
description of it. But I will tell you
what my first impressions were about
it I thought it was the [lonesomest?] and
most dreary looking place that ever was
and my opinion has not altered but little since