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Hopes she will leave for Liverpool soon after he gets back to New York; thinks she should bring [Matthew's son] James with her so he can attend the German school for the care of stammering; is glad that Matthew and his family will be able to go to Niagara; expects to come back to Liverpool from London and 31 [May]; will stay at Batt's Hotel in London, though he will have to have a room on the top floor; the copy of the picture of their father will have to be the same size as the original, and thus larger than Matthew wants it; intends to have photographs taken of the painting; Mr. Cha[rle]s Steele thinks that the Chamber of Commerce would let them have the painting; thinks there are still too many people there who knew their father for it to be given up; Mr. and Mrs. Steele plan to send a present with him; told Miss Dilworth that he would also take presents home from her; saw William and Fontaine last week at Tom Bold's where they were honoring George's coming into his property; their relatives like William, but think that Fontaine is too conceited; Fontaine heard Mr. Tobin's farewell ceremony; William wants to buy some more lard out of the proceeds of Cousin Robert's lard; thinks he should check with Robert first; William does not want to go back to America and be arrested like Rutson was; does not think William should go back before there is peace; is not sure what William will do after he [RM] goes back to New York; had T [tea] with Mr. and Mrs. Cropper on Friday evening; Mr. Cropper thinks that the capture of New O[rleans] is the beginning of the end; news of friends; Mr. Weed first told him the news of the capture of New O[rleans]; the news was unexpected to him; Mrs. Hodgson called while he was in Wales to invite him to rejoin their pew at church; he contributed a sovereign to the church Missionarty society; will try to bring back the portion of Tregelles' Greek Testament that have already been published, and order the rest; news of friends; bought a sausage machine; excloses some slips about the late Mr. Tho[ma]s Thornely and Capt[ain] Wilson of the Emily St. Pierre [not present]. 8pp ALS