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Powhatan Co

Apl 26/63

Darling daughter

My present house is a very plea

sant & desirable one, in all the comforts

which easy circumstances, & good [?]

[?] hospitality can supply. I would

however willingly exchange it for a much humb

ler one which would give me the society of

wife & daughter. The thing which most interferes

with m comfort is what you would not com

plain of - the crowd of young people attracted

here by the generous hospitality of the [?] &

the society of a son & daughter just turned out.

Miss [Ginnie?] is quite [?] to be a [better?] [?] [?]

[?], kind, good humored, witty [?]

laugh, dimples, fresh complexion, & bright black

eyes, good sense & [?] humor. She

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[?] but sings & plays very well. She heard him

say to one of her beaux, she did not know what

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had any. Bernard has spirits less elastic but

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[...................................?...........................................]. No doubt

there is a spectacle here as in every household [?]

not yet [?] [?]. Bernard (the son is abt 20.) Kind

considerate & amiable, practices no excess, except

perhaps in the use of tobacco, of good practical

sense, has no taste for reading, & is very fond of

music. He is good looking enough, is like his sister

not quite as eager in pursuit of pleasures. In his

countenance & complexion there are [?]

of greater delicacy of [?]. He was

one of the earliest volunteers when the war broke

out. Was taken with the measles, which fell upon his

beings & has had repeated & severe hemorrhages [?]

[?]. He is discharged from the army & is engaged in

farming. When I came from school on Monday, the

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 presence of sabers & holsters in the [?]  indica

ted an arrival of a squad of soldiers because [?]

there were in the pasture these young lads, & three

young gentlemen who had been spending the day

they all staid all night. The next day on my return

the 3 [?] had left. The gentlemen all stayed through

the succeeding night until the afternoon of the

next day. I found the coast clear Wednesday night.

On Thursday there came another