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                       Philade  July 14th
                                      1861

My dear Son,

        Dr. Dillard of the 

US [?] to Old point Comfort tomorrow & promises if I will write you an open letter to transmit it to you, by a flag of truce. I avail myself of the opportunity to give you the latest news of us.

        We are still in the city

though your mother proposes going to the farm in the course of the coming week. She is in her usual health, but of course neither she or myself can feel very cheerful in the present unhappy condition of our country. Agnes, Beverley & the children are well, as was Edmund when we last heard from him. You have no doubt learned in this that he has removed & will probably make NewYork his permanent residence. He com- -mences under very favorable auspices in the office of Mr. William Custis [Noyes?], an emi= -nent member of the bar there, & thinks from present appear= ances that he will in the course of two or three years at farthest obtain a practice adequate to his support.

          The Bay Company de-

-clared their usual dividend of five per cent last Wednesday & directed the dividend accruing to the Seaboard Company to be paid to Mr. [?Savage] & myself for the purpose of enabling me to pay the dividend & interest due him on the 1st of June last. Af- -ter paying that which will pr0- -bably be called for here, the balance remaining will be re- -tained by me to