If we haven’t much to tell, we at least haven’t any bad news among it.

We have a wet nurse with plenty of milk, now, & a supplemental nurse that is handy & loves the baby. We have discharged two nurses lately. Ⓐemendationwhom we had in place of these.

Mrs. Dr. Gleason left here when Livy was decidedly & distinctly out of danger & then Susy Crane staid till a 3 or 4 days ago1explanatory note when Livy had become wonderfully better & hungrier & chattier & cheerfuller, & departed for Elmira, Clara Spaulding relieving her. Clara is here yet. We play 3-handed (cut-throat) Euchre & other games, although Livy lies in bed. Livy sits up 2 or 3 times a day an hour to 2 hours at a time but cannot walk a step (& won’t for a month, I think, tho’ she puts it 10 days.)

We leave for Elmira as soon as she can travel, & the agents may take their own time about selling the house.

We spent the most of this morning-hour talking about you and rehearsing gratefully the fact that she you have dropped affairs Ⓐemendationof the highest importance more than once to come & cheer & help & comfort us in our great need2explanatory note—& I don’t believe anybody has so good a friend & mother & y Ⓐemendationas you are to us, or one who is so loved, & whose motherly ways & deeds Ⓐemendationare so more g gratefully remembered & sincerely appe appreciatedⒶemendation.

Susie is to go South immediately. Her physicians says that with great care she may live a good while, but that it is imperative that she spend her Springs South.

I Charley is pining for Europe again, & I think a majority vote can be polled to let him go. He is too uneasy & spasmodic to be of the fullest comfort or usefulness, either, at home.

Go on “fixing up” out at “Faro-Bank,”3explanatory note for we are personally interested. We look forward to n Ⓐemendationtwo or three weeks of genuine comfort & placid satisfaction there in the summer.

Love to all the old household & the new branch.4explanatory note