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Is glad that she went to Great neck; the wedding at New Brighton will be on 2 October; Mr. Hamilton will perform the ceremony, and he, his wife, and their two daughters will come a week early since the girls are going to be bridesmaids and need to have their dresses made; Mrs. Addison and her daughters went shopping with the Bolds yesterday, so he got to see them; Mary Bold wants to go to Sedgwick with him a week after the wedding; will visit Mr. Leech in Southport this weekend; will dine with Mr. H.W. Gair [?] and his mother in two days; young Mr. Weed is ging to work at Cropper Hodgson & Co[mpany]; saw My. Jennings, who is now married and has two children; he had married and upset that his wife was of low statrus; knows Rutson will have enough money to live on during the war, but is afraid that James, William, and Fontaine may be very poor; thinks the Hatteras expedition may interfere with Nan's plans to move back to Norfolk; thinks Freemont wa sunwise in declaring all slaves owned by disoyal masters in M[iss]o[uri] free; does not think the Gov[ernmen]t in Wash[ingto]n will approve; hopes that Maggie is getting better; is glad to hear that business is good in New York; has sodl only a little cotton; cannot forsee an end to the war; is sorry to hear about the accident of the G[rea]t [?} Eastern; fears Dr. neville was injured, as he was a passanger; hopes he will have another chance to talk to Mr. Menlove about his family; (19 September) bought 508 bales of Surats instead of selling cotton; Surats have been selling well; assumes they are selling well on the Continent too; Thinka Freemont's actions will destroy UNion feelings in the south; she can let Matthew read the section of the letter dealing with Surats; news of friends. 8pp. ALS