Immediately after this she began to gabble over something which I could not understand in the least.  At length I grew weary of listening and determined to do so no longer.  I therefore began to sing and play to amuse myself.  I am glad you think of returning so soon.  Pray bring me a large doll with glass eyes (mother will dress it for me) and a pair of blue morocco shoes or booties mother will enclose a strip of paper the length of the soals of my shoes for a guide.  Mother has given me a new pink hat and white plooms a new frock which I have worn out a pr of new shoes which are nearly gone, and several pairs of pantalets which I am now wearing, since you went away. I get a bit of sugar candy only now and then, a lump of loaf sugar comes a little oftener, molasses also, but ma pretends that it is not good for me to eat much of such things.  I have gotten 8 teeth 2 under and 6 upper ones, and can now bite for myself.  I should be glad to write many more things but ma says I must give way, for her, and so dear papa here is a kiss for you, I have twenty more in reserve. 

A. E. Wait

My dear husband,

If kind Providence has succeeded[?] your wishes, I suppose you are now in Newbern.  I hope your journey from Charleston to that place, has been prosperous, and that you arrived in safety.  I know that your passage was in the season for high winds, and that you had some dangerous capes to clear.  I must own, that my timid heart has had some fears for your safety.  But God reigns, and if he has more work for you to perform in his vineyard, your life will be preserved.  Notwithstanding all you have said, my dear, in regard to the climate of N.C. my fears concerning it still remain.  I admit that some northern people may enjoy a tolerable degree of health very far south and in some instances even better than in N. England.  But I cannot think that the climate south of Washington can be as congenial to the constitutions of the people of N.C. generally as their own.  I know not but that Newbern may be as healthy as any place in that region.  But I should think from the circumstance of its being situated on a river in the low flat part of the country, that it might be sickly.  From what I have been able to learn from your