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Has not received the letter Mytton was supposed to send by the pilot, but supposes that is due to the weather; wrote to Harriet; Sarah worked in the garden; hopes to get the planting done this week; Mrs. Stephen Gardner died of a heart complaint; SArah plans to spend Tuesday at Dunnington; William and Walker have dined with them for the past two days; tells her again that he wrote to Mrs. Carrington; wrote to David Spence; James [MM]'s son; was waiting for them when they returned from church to invite to invite him and Sarah to T[tea] to meet Mrs. H.D. Gilpin; accepted the invitation; not knowing of Sarah's Tuesday plans; suggested to Matthew, when she saw him later, that William be invited ; received a letter from John R. Macmurdo, saying that he had a letter for Ann but was too ill to deliver it; he and William made plans to call on him; assumed that William and Walker had gone out for the afternon, but they were resting in their rooms; went to see Mr. Macmurdo after T[tea]; has known the family for a long time; Mr. Macmurdo looked very ill but seemed glad to see him; recommended that he visit one of the sulfur springs and offered to help in anyway he could; called on Mr. Macmurdo, but they claimed they did not know him; (11 May) Mr. Kennedy called to say that he had mistaken Mr. Macmurdo's name for Murdock and that he actually knew him quite well and would call on him; encloses a letter from Harriet [not present]; William got his hair cut short and had his moustache shaved off; thinks that he himself may have his beard, whiskers, and moustache shaved off; gives her David Spence's address; (11 May) Tom's wife and his mother called on Sarah; they hope she will call on them at the Adelphi. 8 pp ALS