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fine long letters since she has written me -
I am very much distressed to hear of dear
Fannie's ill health, Oh! Tootee do tell me
all you hear of her - I suppose you have
heard the distressing news of M^rs Stephen
King's death - poor woman how I do pity her
family - Appy dreamed the other night she
saw King & Bobby - that Bob was too fat to
sleep in the bed with anyone - & that King
was perfectly beautiful - little darlings - I can
scarcely realize in two months if nothing hap-
pens I will see all the loved ones of S^t Simons -
I believe that brother William of ours has forgotten
me - he never has the manners even to send
his love - what a kind noble fellow he is!
I love him as dearly as I do my own brothers - How
proud we are of him - If I can muster enough
brass, I will call him brother when I go home.
Why did you ask me, dearest Tootee about
M^r Gibson? he is nothing to me, He went home
in the vacation but will soon return - I love
his sister dearly - she & I are very intimate - she
went to school with us - Darling Tootee,
this a wonderfully stupid letter - but when
the writer is so stupid what can you expect but a dull letter - Did mother tell you
of the Tableaux we had at the Tontine
some nights ago? After a great deal of
persuasion I consented to act in two - once