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Mary H. [ ]
June 17, 1842
My dearest and best beloved [Luc? ]

I have just received your last letter and
was so glad I both laughed and cried. I was so uneasy
before I heard from you I could not collect [ideas?] sufficient
to frame a letter for I always imagine some of you re sick if
if I dont hear every month. I was in Warrenton to church Sunday
before last and saw Ann she was like myself looking for a
letter and very anxious for its arrival they [ ] [ ] well Mr.
William [Plummens?] health is not so good but he is not sick.
he is going to the White Sulfer springs in Virginia soon and
I hope he will be restored. I went up to see [ ]. Plummer and
children he keeps a very nice house and looks happier than
he has since he lost his wife. Kate Davis is in a fair way to have
another baby and looks very well indeed. Rose is about the same
in all things. [Bet?] Field looks well but very [ ] she enquired
very kindly after you and said I must give her love to you and
she would be very glad to see you, Louis [ ] has another
[ ] and has been at the point of death ever since its birth but
I heard a few days since she was rather better, I went to the [ ]
in [ ] and was very much pleased Uncle William Jones
and his wife [ ] me we had a great deal of excellent preaching
our minister in Warrenton is [ ] [ ]Rey and one of the best
preachers I ever heard he married [ ] [ ] sister she is