and fatigued you will also observe that my dress is to light it is a loosedress I have just had made and it was the only one that was large enough for me Ieda has just gone home has been over on a visit I do not think she is any better that she was two years ago and your Father said to day that he did not think she would ever think herself any better ^finaly and are the same as usual. Clara is now barging over to Fathers her little Lydia grows finely they are over here every day I shall mis them verry much when they are gone, they are going out in the new Ship Matthew Luce with Capt Coon to meet Wm at Yale [red ink mark] did not get my letters from the Islands as soon as I expect and why Hus did you disappoint me so the Mrs Hardings and others had their letters more than two weks before I got mine and they wrote you was there I felt very bad to be so often ask,d why I did not have letters and why not Peter take the earliest opportunity to relieve my verry anxious mind you got much more oil than I e^xpect,d you would but Cyntha said some weeks before that she would bet anything you would have 200 or more and I hoped so but was verry faithless, why dont you write more about your officers and crew any one would think by your letters that you was alone on boar^d the Ship Lorenza comes every week says he should like to know how you lik,d you officers I guess you owners was some disappoint_d because you did not send your oil home , for it will cost so much to get it insured in the [written on left side] Thursdat eve 22 I have a great many spells trying to write this and you will sy I should think so by the looks of the writing I could not blame you for not writing sooner if you had such a tark as I do ²² the babe seams feverish has a bad cold and I am expecting him out of the Cradle every minute and Sis is asleep in her chair