Scope and Contents Relates that she was given great pleasure by Doctor Graham's arrival last Friday Week to Bull Run and sent forw[ar]d his pacquets [sic]; he came here Monday Even[in]g and found Miss S. Brooke with her [MP]; Doctor Graham went to Mr. Tyler's to see [?] his Dulcenia yesterday; hopes Doctor Graham who is thin and grave will recover; her d[ea]r Jenny's happiness is upper most and hopes it will be permanent with the "man of her choice"; the Doctor dropped a hint that "a house was fitting up for Jenny"; comments that she [Jenny] amused them "ab[ou]t his making a figure at the Red House on a Sabbath day"; Mr. Clayton has been down to Alexandria, called there, and took his daughter's "up with him to Mr. Holker's"; he disappointed Mrs. Hannah and fears he will disappoint her (EW); her (EW) last letter "had a speedy conveyance" by H. Alexander who brought them the sad news that her (EW) sister Washington had died of a "bilious Cholic"; Mrs. Boother died of cholic at Bath "sson after she got there"; Colonel Alexander came up and brought George to see them; he [George] and Frank are well, but in "want of hatts [sic]"; George failed to get any at Smith's store; he [George] told her Mrs. Alexander said to bring warm clothes with him because it would be cold next month; he says he only has a winter waist coat; plans to write to Mr. Clayton who says he's getting cloth for the boys; says one of her (EW) letters arrived lately but the one about Mr. B. Carter Braxton must be lost; they were told not to expect "Mad[a]m Polly" [Mary Blair Whiting] until the weddings were over; concern[e]d at "Polly's" not going on with her "musick" [sic]; when her [MW] birthday arrives she shall drink her health; saw the "inclosed advertizement [sic]" in the Alexandria paper which she [MP] sent by Mr. Clayton to make enquiries [sic] as to the price, but it was sold; Doctor Stewart bou[gh]t if for one of the Muss Custise for £120 a sum she would have been loathe to give; pleads with [Polly] to borrow her Mamma's (EW) "humberella" [sic] and exert herself in doing what will induce them to get her a good instrument; sorry to hear from her [MW] mother that she hates writing and does not mind her mother's admonitions; begs that she [MP] does not hear these things of her again; George claims her [EW?] promise of guinea and a half as he has gotten through "grammer [sic]"; Colonel Alexander does not expect to keep Murdock another year; Nancy Mac is much better although she has lost her son; Mrs. Whiting is well again and the "neighborhood is recovered its usual Healthy State"; Mr. Baylor lost his daughter Courtney with a "putrid sore throat"; Mrs. Betton is taken ill; her [MP] brother got overset in his carriage six mile on the other side of Dumfries, broke the top of his carriage, had a cut on his forehead, bruised his temple and had a headache and "small stupor" for a while; Doctor told her that he [John Blair] had written him from Philadelphia and was well; thinks that by the house "got and ready" he must have known about Jenny's intentions before he left for Williamsburg; hopes to get Lewis Whiting, who is at Snow Hill, to carry her letters down; wrote to Mr. Page about the spinnet; thinks it will be ok for "Polly' to practice on; bids her farewell since she is almost blind; asks to be remembered to her friends; plans to write tomorrow to some of them if not sent for by Mrs. Betton whom she promised to attend to on the "unexpected oceasion [sic]"; blesses them and wishes them good health. 3pp. ALS.