P.S. Don't think that I intend the above in any way as an answer to yours. I only wrote it at the suggestion of Mrs. A, to give you notice of her stay with us. I intended to have sent it by Mr. Alsop. But i have just learned, (1/2 after 8) that Miss Olcott & Miss Edmonds go down with the boat. Last evening they were rather undetermined, and this morning Olcott told me they wanted to stay to keep company with Mrs. Worth, till Wednesday. For your sake I am glad that they go. For my own I sincerely regret it. What is loss to us, will be "great gain" to you. But we have already been favored with more of their company than we had reason to expect, perhaps more than we deserved. I do think with you that A. M. O. C. T. & C. P. are three lovely girls. But I will never say yes no to your question. For I know that there is one "finer girl in this world." One who has long had my whole heart & my undivided affections and who never shall be forsaken by me, because I know & am able to appreciate her worth. If you can find this girl, do say to her that I am and ever shall be her faithful and affectionate friend, that I never will forget, and as far as lies in human power, never give her reason to regret the day when she permitted me subscribe myself yo her own Franklin.