My dear husband
I am sure it will please you to hear how well I am getting since my visit to Kegotank; I have not felt so much like myself for months past.
I shou’d have gone on to Northampton as you hinted, but I tho[ugh]t it not altogether proper to leave the girls in their dejected state;1 particularly as I cou’d but stay a fortnight from home, my family I knew wou’d require my presence. I wish’d to spur them up about the wood and had to look out for Turkies for the winter & c. & c. All yr. letters having gone to Eyre Hall, I have not receiv’d any, but one since I return’d home, I sincerely wish to see you here, instead of your letters.
As you have stay’d longer than you thought to do, I think the season is far enough advanced to get the buckwheat meal and also a firkin of butter. This wou’d be better than paying Mrs. Miles, who is sparing of her butter now, an advanced price and be, as to money, the