a
way provided for me to go. Aunt did not intend to have cousin Betsey or me to
go home in this vacation, but as she has been looking to see how many Music
Scholars were to remain, but there are not so many as she expected. She says
that all the objection she had to my going was on account of there not being
any one here to give lessons, and that she should otherwise be willing to have
me go whether they came for me or not. I think it most probable that there will
be none that remain, ikn that case I shall probably see you in a short time.
It would be pleasing to me to have you attend an examination here, and no doubt
highly pleasing to yourself. But I leave that to your decision, and shall expect
to receive a letter from you soon. The reason I have delayed writing so long
was to receive an answer to my last letter. – We have a very backward
spring as far as I can ascertain, and I fear, my dear father, that it is the
case with you. The grass, fields, look so withered, and I do not doubt but that
their appearance is the same in Conn –
Mr. Clark has called here several times since he has been in Troy. – he
has set up business near here, and is now going to move his family on here.
Uncl Aunt Willard has been writing to Uncle Jesse Hart to have him come on here
in August and bring Grand-Mother with him. We expect to have the examination
room finished before the examination arrives, and the remaining part of the
house completed in the vacation. I am very anxious to hear from home, and I
hope you will write to me as soon as this letter, if you have not already written.
With the expectation of seeing all of you before long, I close my letter. My
best love to the family and relations.
I remain your ever affectionate daughter,
Mary. L. Treat –
