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very well indeed and she expects to be confined in
April I know you will be pleased to hear of her
prosperity as i am They live at Wake Forest he is a
Merchant he is not remarcable for his sence but all
that know him say he is a most excellent man and she
is very happy, I found all of my negroes well and doing
as well as I have any right to expect I have not seen
them all yet but I think I shall in the course of this week
or next, and then I shall return to Warrenton for a while.
I have not met with any [ ] in money matters of
much consequence, but the folks this way are very
hard run and you don't hear much but [ ] [ ]
and temperance [ ], my health is as good as usual
but I have a cough yet and always shall I expect
I was truly pleased to hear of your good health and
dear little Sheps but would be more pleased to hear
you intended to come this summer. Oh Luc please
write write me [ ] what that old doctors name
was that lived in Illinois that [ ] poor Louis [ ]
once, [ ] I believe Mr. Cabonne told me he was
the natural son of one of the greatest noble
men that ever lived in Europe, let me know which
one it was for I have forgotten, I heard [ ]
Sheppard not long ago he was very well and is the
same good kind [ ] he has ever been since my
first knowing him, your brother William was out
this way last week to [court?] he has nearly recovered
and said all his folks are well, Frances [ ]
lives at Lucy Davises and teaches school she came