2) let us move where we may!—If you were to come tomorrow, Aunt's being here would make no difference, except that you would have a warmer bed.—Lizzie is with Aunt a great deal—& several changes in arrangements are made—all for the better, I hope—I know my dear friend, you will rejoice in any thing that tends to promote my comfort—D^r C. left here for [Durham?] on Saturday: I expect him this evening—were he here he w^d send his kind love to you—you would have smiled to see him jump up, & take down his own likeness from (over) the back parlor chimney piece & hang your's up! moving his into a corner—I suppose the Glasgow friends have sent you a Bazaar circular! Poor "Aunt Margaret!" She is really very obtuse in some

I will write to Lewis before long—I have not forgotten—I was annoyed to find the note I enclose (from M^r [Peile?], awaiting my return home; what a shame of [Chamerouzour?]!

I am intensely desirous to know the certainty of the Presidential election—so much seems to hang on it.—

I must close—My Aunt desires her kind regards to you—and all the children unite in love to "Uncle Frederick"—Jane is growing a fine girl—& Martha reads nicely—Jane's long visit at Leavington has done her good—The Rawsdens often mention you—May our Heavenly Father take you into his safe keeping, very ever dear friend, & though dark & stormy be the way, some of us have to travel, may the end be Peace to each of us—Your unchanging & affectionate friend,

Julia G. Crofts—

Kind regard to M^rs D. & all the children