August 22” Bargain Town
My dear Frances,
Your sweet little letter came last
ev_g & containing the strongest proof of your regard
in the shape of one of your own dear Henrys letters
I know how highly you must prize them & will there
for return it by the next mail, having only the night
to read in I have only read one page & a half—what
a treasure his letters are. I fully appreciate your kindness
my dear sister in placing so favorable a construction
on my long silence but if you could see (& Ma will
tell you in part how much I am occupied—After
I left Florida & came home I found every thing out of
order & every thing to be done, Ma’s Marcias Uncle Mahlons & Washingtons visit with my domestic
affairs have occupied my head & heart, but not to the
Exclusion of my good Henrys family. I have resolved
& determined to write every weeks since the first of June
but each week has gone without so much as a scratch
of the pen. Never can you realize how much I enjoyed my
dear Mothers visit, the recollection will make me happy
a long time I shall be glad to hear when she is under
your kind care—we have all rejoiced in the favorable

passage our folks had, we anticipated a long tedious one
from the winds we had here they were contrary for
Many days, Mahlon watched & reported to me daily
My little Francis has the summer complaint very bad
he is a world of Care. I am rocking cradle & beginning
to write you must excuse the disjointed sentences—
You know how irritable it makes little boys to be sick—
no one must do any thing but mother
I think you know my dear Sister how much I do love
My Francis & there fore how pleasure it would afford us
to visit you again but that is impossible this fall
uncle Mahlon left us this morning Washington
goes to Morrow Morning & I shall be lonely enough
do please write if is only a few lines how Ma is
Excuse this dreadful letter
Yours most affectionately
In haste
Cornelia
My love to all with M’s
Cornelia 1833