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Franklin County: Kate Scott to Edward McPherson, May 15, 1860

Summary:
Kate Scott fears that Edward McPherson is sick, because of a delay in his letters. She updates him on news of friends and family.


May 15th/60.

Hagerstown

My Dear Brother,

I have been anxiously looking for a letter from you for some time and feel uneasy at your long silence fearing you are sick. I hope you will relieve my mind soon by writing or letting me know how you are, it is so unusual for you to let so long a time pass without writing I cannot account for it. I wrote you soon after receiving your last. I had a letter from Lizzie last week from Baltimore telling me all about Lizzie's going but she neglected to tell me how long she would be there or where I should direct a letter. I want to write to her and am quite at a loss, if you

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know please let me know when you write, she mentioned you were there a short time, what a trial it must have been to part with Lizzie, I feel for her very much she will hardly know what to do without her so accustomed to seeing her so often. I am afraid she never will have very good health, she complains very much in her letter to me. she was anxious to go to Marietta. I would like to have invited her up here from Baltimore but we are in such dreadful confusion she could not be comfortable, we have commenced improving our back building and it is quite a great undertaking, and we are just living any way having been obliged to take the dining room for a kitchen and the back parlor for a dining room, I hope it will not be very long until we are fixed again, but I am afraid it will, there is a great deal to be done, I have been very

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busy home cleaning and am just as tired as I can be tonight. I have worked more than I ought to have done to get the front part comfortable. Have you been to Gettysburg lately? the mirrors have not yet arrived neither have I heard anything of them. I expected them before this. I hope they are safe, Mary Emma left this on Saturday for Pittsburg first spending a week in Philadelphia her Mother and Father will meet her in Harrisburg next week and all go over, the bride and groom will take quite a trip and visit Rose Hill on their return also Jinnie Berry's and Washington. Mary Alvey is now on a visit to her Father's at the Agricultural College, I don't know if she will go to Washington or not Mr & Mrs [unclear: Isore] left this yesterday to spend a few days in Washington and Baltimore. The children are very well. Lillie goes to school and is making rapid progress. she is remarkably fond of her

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book and is very apt Dr says she is smarter than both the boys put together she is devoted to going to school. How long do you expect to be in Washington yet? I think you must be getting tired of it and would enjoy a change. I hope you will come to see us this summer. do be sure and write very soon and relieve my mind, do excuse this writing. I can scarcely guide my pen. My hand trembles. Dr wishes to be remembered and in anxious to know if there is anything the matter,

Yours very truly

Kate --



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