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 --
