Letter to Diana Fontaine Corbin (Maury)

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Written from the Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C. Letter regards family news.

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Send this to Nannie.

Observatory
July 9, 1860

My dear Nannie,
Bless your heart for that letter. I'd give an eyetooth to see you. Ask your Ma to please have another one pulled and keep you till I come. Am glad to hear of Dick's arrival. I'll send the letter from him by Sr.E. who says she is going Wednesday - Am truly sorry about the chills. Hope your Ma will keep then inside. They have been troubling me also this cold weather. Tell Jno Minor I went to see Bob this morning. He was touched by his kindness and grateful to a degree. I am to try tomorrow to get a clerkship for him in the Census Bureau.

You said never a word about your Uncle Charles' wife- poor bird! N.B. stutters as Dave did.

Next week will be the 19th. I suppose you will be up then to court. Though things look so smooth in favor of paying off and dividing I can but fear something is to thwart it after all.

Betty did not go a - sherry - cobblering last night. Today I read [p] 230 of new ed. P.G. - in the last edition there are 389pp. I do not know how many there will be in this - But 400 at least I reckon.

See a letter I got this morning from my "Injun" yr friend Mr S.
Kiss everybody
your Dad, in haste -

[Note on verso of letter] All well. Aunt E. expected today must meet her
in haste
JHM {?John Herndon Maury MIA 1863}

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