Letter to Spotswood W. Corbin, 1859

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English.

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Written from Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C. Letter regards family health news.

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4 July '59

My dear Corbin,

A letter came from Nannie while I was gone. I did not see it- it was torn up. But from what her mother tells me of it, it increases our solicitude to a painful extent. She is morbidly sensitive & evidently very low spirited. We think the best thing would be for you to bring her to us.

Persons in her situation require to be cared for & looked after in manners & ways which no one can do half so well as a mother. It is of great consequence that she should be with her mother now- and we hope that you also will admit the importance of it & bring her at once. If you do not come as soon as a letter would reach us, write and tell us when to expect you. It is important that you should do this for some of our own arrangements depend on certainty as to Nannie's movements.

From the tone of Nannie's letter her mother does not think that she should be consulted at all- but that you should take her right up & bring her to us. The gloomy and desponding mood that comes over her now & then is to be avoided by all means- ugly consequences may be the result- Therefore we are so [honest] in urging you to bring her to us at once. It is of great importance to her.

Give her our most tender love, solicitude & affection with a thousand kisses. We have letters this morning praising Dick & making us very proud.

They have established a new chair- Physical Geography & Agricultural science & offered it to me. I have not decided to accept. Yrs truly,

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Correspondence

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