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They are contented here tho’ my love of society and the indulgence of conversation are powers would have to a more enlarged [illegible], still I do find my infirmity growing upon me and perceive that I cannot endure much. I think my attendance of Waterloo Mg. (Meeting) was too much for me last year. Tho’ I enjoy’d much that I would not have miss’d it for all I suffered with nervous pain in my head for months so that prudence may forbid my attempting the attendance again but really I was feasted[?] with the speaker HJW[?] in a particular manner. I had never hear’d him before the other two. All of them seem’d gifted[?] for the great occasion and now tho’ I feel very much discouraged to living[?] it again yet I know I shall feel lost almost without the annual heat it may be that my children with some of them go with me and that will be much better than to be so alone as I felt last year. I had near gone among complete[?] strangers to lodge[?] till then and the meeting was so large and so exciting that I did not get quite right in all

summer. But I will not anticipate the delightful account[sic] of the decade [illegible] and the pleas and cheering visit of my dear Amy then the fact that our beloved Thomas[?] is really here so that tho’ we may not touch the hem of