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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
[...................................................?...................................]
[?] but sings & plays very well. She heard him
say to one of her beaux, she did not know what
[...................................?......................................................]
had any. Bernard has spirits less elastic but
[...................................?......................................................]
[...................................?...........................................]. 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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