be for the best for us & you and the most for God’s glory & if not, we accept not to desire it.

     I hoped we should get a letter before we left here, but the steamer is not yet in & if we go tomorrow morning we can not have it- do not envy us that sail upon the Rhine- I expect it will be a delightful one- though if the weather be bad it will do much to prevent the enjoyment & today it is looking very unpropitious-

  I suppose Mary will soon be off to Hartford & Kate’s 

I am thinking now that your silk bed quilt will perhaps get quilted during this vacation for I do not see how you can have done it before & yet I did hope you would have it done for commencement-  I long to hear all about the exercises of the week- did Mr Henry Edwards get there- Gov Briggs- Prof Edwards &c--- Edward will soon be off to Easthampton- what will you do for a brother then besides Charlie- Please remind Charlie that he has not written his first line yet to us-

     Since writing the above Mr T has received a letter from his daughter via Edinburgh in which she speaks of Mr Edward’s return, so I hope you have seen him at Amherst

  There are a great many Americans travelling in Europe, you can hardly go amiss of them--Mr Buddington has just returned from the continent--says he meets them in great numbers there-