The Genteel Gentile, Letters of Elizabeth Cumming, 1857 - 1858

Genteel Gentile, page 098

monism is-after this definition, I leave ii for the present. My family are all verv well. Belinda ii in Boston with mv dear Mother Anna was, when I lasi heard from home, I,, Oberhn, Ohlo, on a vmt to a fnend of hers John has been travellmg m the Lake Country-but 1s now at Stow, w,th some friends* They have never felt anxious about us, Bella says, after receiving the two or three first letters from me-for which I was very glad. They all seem verv cheerful & hams . as usual-and are &lhng to rqom that my ,ourney & so,oum have gwen me so much to r&rest C amuse Tdl lately I have wrwen to them often & much My pres- ent occupations have rendered wnrmg long letters buden- some I Intended, when I commenced thls letter, to gwe an ac- count of a three days p,cnic we had 11, Cottonwood Calion, mwted by l'rest Young-but I have other letters to wee, & 98