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tell me all when you write. also tell me if the dear pets have grown any?and how dear little Marshal grows and how they all look, what they say? &c?We had three little aligators here not much longer than your hand. I would have preserved one of them for Mr Acklen if I could have done so, but I had no place to keep them in. a few mosquitoes made their appearance here on the 3rd of this month, and troubled us for several evenings but they have disapeared again, and we are again free from them.?The bathers have returned they had a nice time & send bushels of love to you--John has just returned from the Bay with your sweet letter of the 24th & 5th I will not pretend to answer it now but will take another opportunity in a day or two?the proceeds of his marketing is quite encouraging as a beginning my first attempt 38 mellons and 30 young chickens brings me in $19.95 three dollars and a half doz for chickens?if I had a good gardner here I could make a good living off of it We have every thing of fruit and vegetables you have in Tennessee & all in full blast?now or over, our early corn is all over, peas, beans. but we have [simlens], tomatoes, cucumbers, field corn, &c with splendid peaches in abundance, grapes coming on, some few ripe figs nearly gone, plums nearly gone &c we are living very well and are as comfortable and delightfully situated as we can be?but you know my feelings about this country. I cannot be happy separated from you all your Pa is seated by my side reading your sweet letter.
We are all well. he joins me in love & kisses to all?accept mine my darling one and may God bless you and Johnnie and all yours in your temporal and spiritual intrests preserve and protect you and permit us again to see you all at the time appointed. Good bye from your own devoted Mother