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. . . Th? rose*	art all in	full blooa,	and	the orang* trees
filled with fragrant	blossoms.	A gentleman	from Jackson who came
to the place for the	first time	a few day* ago,	and intends to
recain here, says that r,it is a	place where	one	ought to be
content to wait the coming of the Lord.? At this season it is certainly charming.
. . . Tell Paul (her brother) that there is the finest kind of duck shooting about here, and ve offer hie the use of a shooting box on the Gulf of J'exico. . .
April 6, 1875^ letter from Frs. BenJ. F. Butler at Vashington, B.C.
to daughter >'rs. Arr.es at Bay St. T.ouis (page 102-3)
"By your arrangements I think you are intending to stay lnt? at Bay St. Louis. There I think you are wrong. You risk too much, both for yourself and the children. That journey across the country^ after the heat fairly sets in, is too formidable. The few weeks extra tire there is not a good reason for the great discoafort and even danger too, of staying there late in the snring.
"There is much said in the papers of smallpox in New Orleans, and yellow fever along the coast. I do not pay any great heed to this, nevertheless It is not veil to regain in the vicinity of such diseases. You and the children had better be moving along up toward the 1?orth. . ."
?'ay 20, 137?, letter froc Mrs. Adelbert Air.es to her nother Mrs. Esnj.
F. Butler ? Bay St. Louis to Washington, B.C. (page 10?)
Your letter cane yesterday and although you urge our departure North cost eloquently, still ve wust adhere to our first determination to regain until the 11th or 12th of June.
Indeed it would	be	very difficult to	leave ju^t now.	The
carpenters are still	at	work, as well a? the painters, and
altogether we are full of business.
As far as the weather is concerned, we have no need to hurryi for nothirg could be	rnore delightful than	these days and nighte.	It
is a little too cool	to	enjoy the bathing	constantly. The	temperature
of the water i? agreeable, but the wind is too fresh except tt siid-^ay, and then I do not car? to bathe on account of my co-nplexlon.
I have been in several times with the children. They are perfectly wild vith delight, and Butler(son) teases to go daily.
The only drawback to this place is in the shape of gnats, flies end r.osquitoes. Still there are cany days when we have few, if any of these, as the Gulf winds drive them all inland.
Ca-ot. Awes (father of Adelbert A.res) pays for half of this Bay St.?Louis oroperty. It will cost, when completed, about four thousand dollars.
A gentleraan by the name of Claiborne wished to be remembered to rather (U.S. MaJ. Ge$. Benj. F. Butler) -- as the first Union can who egt him at F-hip Island. (IJS note:	this would have been
J. F. H. Claiborne who lived in Hancock County)