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The Landlord who has a room on the stairs, had heard her let him in about one oclock and as soon as it was light had gone and told her husband who you may be sure had not lost time in coming over to see if it was realy true - we were a good deal disturbed for the street was full of people - He had taken the fellow in the sheet and given a sound thrashing. I was sorry he had not beaten them both but the wife came off better than she deserved as she only got a few thumps and a bite on one arm which lamed her for two or three days - Hiram got up in a hurry I can assure you and made the fellow start in no time and told her she should stay provided he never caught any of her lovers in the house again which she very readily promised - We [[strikethrough]] were [[/strikethrough]] had half a mind to send her off but were told we would go farther & fare worse, we have concluded to keep her, I think she is realy a very good woman in every other respect - Her husband poor fool is now on as [[strikethrough]] god [[/strikethrough]] good terms as ever  he comes every Sunday to help her, draw all the water, cleans the knives & lamps and washes up all the things in the kitchen and they are as kind together as if nothing had had happened. Such things are so common here it is thought nothing of, they are a most depraved set of people both men and women - I shall have enough to tell when I get home to weary you about. 

July 23 1839 - 

I did not think when I commenced this letter that 1839 should have come in before it was finished, you will hardly believe me when I tell you I positively have not had time before now to finish it, I always put Sunday aside for writing but every Sunday since commencing this I have had company all day, one Sunday Mr & Mrs Hubard spent with me, another, a young lady by the name of Julia Sweet & her Aunt Miss Lippett & the next Miss Greenough, I spent the days very pleasantly indeed but felt all the time as if I ought to be writing home - I how commence it with the determination to end it before rising, but how that will be I can not tell, little puss how just gone to sleep but her naps are very short, I told when she was going to sleep that she must not wake up under two hours, that I was going to write to her Granma, but she is not very bidable, so I suppose she will wake up when she pleases, while I write I have keep her cradle constantly going, and if there is any had spelling or mistakes in this you must attribute it all to her - She is one of the heartiest, merriest, little bodies you ever saw, her papa calls her 'Fatty' she is so bit & fat that she rolls about like a large grub- When she was four months old she weighed 26 l/2 Italian pounds which are equal to almost eighteen of ours, I think that is doing pretty well, a gain of nearly seven pounds in a month, I think she is about cutting her teeth and we are in hopes she will have the worst through before the very warm weather - I presume that before this time you have the letter in which I sent a small lock of her hair, just enough to show the colour, the first has begun to come out and the new is of a much lighter colour, her eyes are large & of a beautifull Hue & very soft and all together she is about as pretty a baby as ever you saw - so I think so you all would