Amherst Feb 11 1856
My dear cousin Eunice
You see by my date that I am home again. I expected when I left you that I should see you again on my return & I left Cincinnati with that expectation. We left in the morning of Jan. 27 (Monday) Your uncle had engaged to stop at Columbus to give a lecture on that evening, which he did & then there was another association of the Christian Association in which he feels a particular interest, who were very urgent to hear him the next evening & he consented to remain-We then started on Wed. morning & I had no other thought but to stop and spend the night with you but-hearing so much about new drifts at
[I should love exceedingly to hear from you by letter if you would take the trouble when you feel in a mood for it.]
Edward was completing a speaking tour that took him as far as Chicago, Illinois, when he and Orra met up in Cincinnati, Ohio, to see their married daughter Kate. They had hoped to stop to visit their niece Eunice Huntington (addressed as "cousin" in this letter), but their train was delayed by very snowy weather. While Orra would have preferred to wait out the storm so they could stop to visit Eunice, she went along with what her husband wanted--"as I suppose a good wife should," she noted with dry humor.