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untill all the "[s?]" as Sukey used to say was dryed up

Thy aunts P and H, send their love and say they often talk of thee

Well what about thy Baltimore visit, and when does Charles go
on his traveles and how long will he be absent? how is his health and
how art thou? how is Ann progressing, and has she learned to say Grandmother, if I had wings

My love embraces you all thy affectionate Mother
M. P. Brooke

My dear sister
I can not see how I can take
time from my quilt to finish this I am so very
anxious to see how it will look once it is
nearly done, I expect thee will feel quite envious
of my having such pretty ones when thee comes up.
Deborah Brooke and Sally Lea spent a couple
of days with me the first part of the week and
helped me so little, so that I feel quite in
the humours of putting another in next week
and thou had pretty considerable of company
for the last week or two though it is so muddy
under foot - so that no tardy approach of
of Spring weather has not gone as hard with
me as common - when I get tired of sewing I
take a glass of bitter down with some of the
stragglers which quite rests me. but really I
have become so accomplished in this game. And
the fun of it is all done away, day before
yesterday I kept it up sixteen hundred times
and concluded it was quite unladylike to
give it another blast.

Chappell enquired very affectionately
after thee and little Ann. He is a "most
monstrous" impertinent gentleman and I cant
say I like him very much. Burnes is mostly
more refined and intellectual and we get