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 may enjoy the blessing of health. We have been visting [sic] Boston, Providence, Hartford, and Newhaven with most encouraging results. I have to say of Doctor Joy that he is unremitting in his attention to my every wish, and I believe that all our party have but one feeling towards him—of kindness and respect for his many excellent qualities. Give my best love to your dear mother, to Maria, and the little ones. I look forward to a happy meeting with you all in England. Mamma and Henrietta desire their warmest love to all.—Believe me, my dear Mr. Beale, yours very sincerely, 1em

".—Do you not observe an improvement in my writing C.? I have writen [sic] so many autographs that it has gained, by practice, an additional flourish. May all happiness be yours. Kindest regards to your dear father.

"To Willert Beale, Esquire."

Dr. Tisdall adds that, " With her eminent musical qualifications the writer of this letter was gifted with great histrionic ability. Her acting as Anna in La Somnambula, and Lucia, in Lucia di Lammermoor, left nothing to be desired, and I have been told, by competent judges, that her performance of the part of the Druid Priestess, Norma, was deserving of the highest praise. Fortunate,