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Tuesday evening -

Tonight dear Phebe - good Mrs. Horton & her company have gone out - I wish all the family were gone - for I love an evening by my self - but I will try to feel alone with thee - and steal an hour from my drawing for a little talk - since I did not find time for it - Sunday.  Thy dear loving letter last Tuesday was a comfort - as every word of thine is - and always has been  and I was very glad to hear from You - but tell him - if I accept his arrangement for visiting you - I am afraid I shall see little of you this year - for I am exceedingly anxious to go into the country as early as the 1st of June - but am afraid my class at Miss H.'s will not close till I had a call yesterday from the president of the Acadamy of Fine Arts - and the teacher of drawing there - to tell me of a school where there was a drawing teacher wanted. They gave me quite a flourishing letter of recommendation - which I felt quite sure - would settle the matter - as they said - they had been applied - to them to recommend some one - but in calling today - I find there is only a very small chance of it - as they are only thinking it posible they may change their teacher - 

I hope this will arrive on little Will's birth-day - oh! Phebe - what a sad winter that was - 6 years ago - and yet it was then - I first learnt how sweet was thy love - so I shall ever bless it - for it opened a new life to me - And now - good night my darling - kiss all the dear pets - for their friend - and for thy husband and thy self - accept renewed assurances - of the unchanging affection of thy Fidelia.