Present us most kindly to your wife, and forget not that our coming will be much more enchanting with Mrs. S.'s proposed addition.
Yours aff.,
G.W.C.
NAHANT, Wednesday morning Aug 12, '51.
IV
My dear John,—We are tapering off. Mrs. Story is not well, and we have not our young ladies yet. Also C.P. Cranch goes to Quincy, where his wife is. So I fear you will have only William and me, and very probably his proof-sheets will retain him. I expect Cranch to come, but he is quite unwell.
Yours aff.,
G.W.C.
Friday, Aug. 15, '51.