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Allentown 23^d June 1852 -
Wednesday

My own dearest Tootee,

Here we all are, Mother, Cousin Amanda,
M^r Woolley, Lord, Floyd, Tip, Georgia, Florence, Virginia & last of all
good Rhina, all now wanting are all you beloved ones on St.
Simons, with the dear ones in California, & poor Mal in
New Haven. Dearest Mother is much better, all the rest
are quite well, Mother had a dreadful headache last night,
but she feels nothing of it to-day - we are all so perfectly
happy to see them all once more, & if nothing happens
in the fall, & we all return home, won't we be happy?
Father in his last letter to Uncle Henry says he will leave
California for good in the fall, & Butler too - This is
the day brother William was to leave for dear old S^t
Simons - (How I wish it was the day for us all to return)
I was sadly disappointed at not seeing him, we hoped
to the last that we might see him - He is in my
opinion one of the noblest of God's creatures - I was very
anxious to see him - all the little things we had got
to take to your dear ones, I had hoped to send by him ---

Mother does not seem nervous now - I pray she may soon
be well. Yesterday afternoon we all went to see dear cousin
& M^r Woolley - when we went there, they both were asleep,
but after a while they awoke, & we had a long talk, telling
them all of our troubles & c---- Cousin Amanda & M^r W.