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improving - I have attended to gathering and preserving the
fruit thee spoke of and will attend to the other directions in
thy letter as early as is it in my power - Cynthia Janney
has been with me since first day - and I have been visiting
a little with her but cannot pay her as much attention as
I should wish - please give my love to her sisters and like
them we will take all the care of them we can and they need
not look for her in the Alex^a till the warm season is over -
my love affectionately to our three pair of cousins - tell Amy
Ann I intended to have sent home "Letters from the Mountains"
but forgot it when the carriage left here - now Mother thee
knows how averse I am to my letters having seen - pray do not
let a creature look at this - I would write more but it is
getting late and I was up very early and done my baking
before breakfast this morning - so I must say farewell -
One thing more I have just thought of - I put up cousin
C Morgan's Telescopes to send and they were left on the table
thee may just inform her that she may not think I am
going to keep them altogether - farewell mother, mayst
thou return with the reward of peace is the fervent wish of
thy affectionate daughter
SAL -

Dear Ann When I went to bed last
night I told S. Ann to leave a little room
for me to write in her letter but on
looking over it I dont think of much
to add, the day thou left us I felt a
good deal unwell & so much like I was
last summer that it allarmed me a little
but have been better since & believe
I am about my usual state of health
now, I have had to use much exercise in
day time, rather more sometimes than
I felt able to bear, at nights I feel
lonsome

but now J Phillips has come home
I hope to have some relief in both respects
I would have thee make thyself quite easy about
home & stay untill thy visit is entirely compleated
& all done that thou has to do in
& about Alex^a, there is one thing that I intended
to mention before thee left us & forgot it,
which I am most easy to mention now,
if thou should have occasion to speake any
in public, I could wish thee to avoid as
much as consistant doctrinal points,
or at least controvertial subjects, for this a day
& time when people are looking out for charges against
religeon & its advocates, & I have allways believed
that thy gift was more admonitory than doctrinal,
& if so thou wilt be likely to add more
good by keeping to thy own gift, than in any
other line I heard late last evening that
Wm Janney was to sett out to Alex^a this
morning, by whom I expected to send this &
have been on the lookout for him, but have
just heard that he has passed by, perhaps
when I was washing out the Pump, Little
James is quite well, I dont understand
that there is much change in E Chilton's
health since thee left home, or with any
of our neighbors - I am affectionately
Thy Asa Moore