I have to go away by myself and cry because I want to see you so much, and little sister Lizy and Louisa. Doctor Fuller is coming to cure Grandmother. i shall see you in a few days. You have a splendid husband
Anna
V years of age—
(On this she had drawn her hand.)
She was six years old when she wrote this:
Dear Mother,
I have not had a note from you for a great while. You wanted some wafers yesterday will you accept of them from me There is not many but it is all that I have got. I am very glad my birthday is so near for as I grow older, I hope I shall grow better and more useful to you, I hope soon we shall be settled down in some comfortable little home of our own and then shall be contented and happy I hope. I must go to my sums now, so goodbye dearest mother
Your loving Anna
A letter eloquent of the tender relation between mother and child is this written during the Fruitlands period:
For
Dearest mother
fruitlands.