MY dear Jane Norris,—Thanks, many thanks, my dear friend, for your kind remembrances. What a nice Goose! That, and all its accompaniments in the basket, we all devoured; the two legs fell to my share!!!
Your chearful [letter,] my Jane, made me feel “almost as good as new.”
Your Mother and I must meet again. Do not be surprized if I pop in again for a half-hour’s call some fine frosty morning.
Thank you, dear Jane, for the happy tidings that my old friend Miss Bangham is alive, an[d] that Mary is still with you, unmarried. Heaven bless you all.
Love to Mother, Betsey, Mary, &c. How I do long to see you.
I am always your affecately grateful friend,
