Page:Letter from Anne Warren Weston to Deborah Weston (1842).pdf/2

 Mrs Ana Webb &amp; Mrs Allen at two separate times &amp; promised to call upon them both which I shall do. Mrs Webb looked very sober, Jane is to be confined in Maul(?). Mrs Allen has lost every remnant of beauty. I have heard from home this morning. All are well &amp; they want Henry to come down on Sunday. He is rather more comfortable I believe than he has been. There has been great talk about his going away &amp; his mother &amp; Maria paid everything that was in their power, but he absolutely declined. I do not think he would go unles an angel showed specially in form him that it would save his life. Maria's new gown, a striped lavender looks very handsome. She wore it here the other afternoon. Mary Mansfield is engaged to a young man named Patterson. She is going to be married &amp; go to Paris for several (days), he being an agent for some dry goods house. Richard Luckers's estate has been rendered insolvent. Last night Elizabeth Peabody, (saw night before last) had a party at which Dickens was fully expected. It was one of her usual weekly conversations expanded into a party. But after the company was expectant all arrived, came a note from Boz, saying he was so worn out &amp; exhausted by the preceding day's dinner that he could not come. The same misfortune befell Mrs Page where he was invited to dine that day. Tomorrow he is going to see the Manor St Chapel children, &amp; as Henretta &amp; I think there is a hope he may address them, we shall go. The Chapel is little, but we are good pushers.

I have made up my mind to send this by Hatch &amp; shall send with it, the patterns, drawings I mean, &amp; your collar which I mean to catch Caroline long enough to buy for I cannot take these vast responsibilities. Mrs Loring(?) came to me the other night I asked if I could not come &amp; stay a day or two with her before I left Town. I told her I should like to, so if she sends a definite