March 15th 1813
My dear husband
Yours of the 13th came to hand; and I am really griev’d that you have cause to complain for me for want of punctuality. The first mail after you left there, I did not write, it is true, but I assign’d my reason, which was the real pain in my head, in the first letter I wrote which must have been written before you arriv’d in Baltimore. Every mail since that time I have regularly written and notice’d the contents of yours. I wrote too, by Mr. Done, who set off for Baltimore via Cambe on Sunday last. In this letter, I notic’d particularly all the articles receiv’d &c., mentioned in your list which were brought to hand in good order.
I don’t perfectly comprehend what other dispatches you allude to as wishing to have a reply to. I have answer’d all your letters on every important point and this mail has brought me no other letter than the one before me which encloses 10 dollars, for which I sincerely thank you, as well for the kind intention you hint regarding the carriage. I know you mean this for my sole comfort and as such I feel it, but I beg of you my dear husband not to put yourself to any inconveniences nor to