Scope and Contents Informs her dear Betsey (EW) that accounts of Mrs. Booth's death are false; she (MB) has been riding out tho it is s[ai]d that her life is despair[e]d of, this may be false also"; has been mainly at Mr. Whitings since last Wednesday, as the horses were sent home "and could not bee spared from the plough"; the horses were brought to her yesterday and she took the opportunity of dining with Nancy Mac, who is recovering her spirits after the loss of her son; she [NM] asked to be remembered to her (EW); S. Brooke promises to write to Jenny; Mr. Lewis Whiting is there but expects to go down in a few days; saw Doct[o]r Graham who "recovers his flesh and good looks very fast"; Mr. P. promises to write to her; slept poorly last night and is not fit for writing today; planned to write to her sister and Mary and Charlotte but she will postpone it as she is "totally unhinged"; she is preserving peaches; Mrs. Betton keeps up yet but "think she cannot do so long"; asks her to tell "Polly" [Mary Blair Whiting] she drank to her health on her birthday and hopes she will enjoy many of them; begs love to all her friends; under the sense of "gratitude for their late favors"; asks that every blessing attend her (EW); relates "a little after 12 o'clock now for M.H. and Jenny's happy moments." 2pp. ALS.