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Was glad to receive her letter and to know that she and her baby [Leonard Turner Maury] are doing well and that the family is settling in; her brother George was glad to hear that moving to Milton, as he suggested had turned out well; enclosed her letter in one that she wrote to her [Nan's] Aunt (Ann Maury); Sarah Maury, Robert Maury's daughter, told her that Ann received her [EM] W.P. Cloak; is not sure how to get the cloak of how to get the money to send it to Ann; can wait to receive the cloak and the Irish parcel until there is opprotunity to send them; Sarah told her that Ann and Mytton Maury are going to England in the spring; hopes to hear from her before they leave; thanks her for the Northern stamps she enclosed; does not need needles or pins; Sarah said that the late Mrs. Ludlow's family has gone to St. Louis and that William [Maury, Nan's brother] followed them; hopes she has heard from her husband Willam [Maury, Nan's brother] followed them; hopes she has heard from her husband [William Lewis Maury] since his arrival; asks if he has been promoted yet; food prices are very expensive; her mother has been ill and is in poor spirits; her brother had a cold, too, but he is better now; Edmund Myer's children have recovered from the measles and now have the whooping cough; hopes that she will have another daughter to comfort her [after the loss of Harriet]; her family sends regards. 4pp. ALS