[Lydia] Maria [Child] ALS to [Anna Loring], August 16, 1840

Nora is the Irish for Anna; so it is only
your name in another dialect. If you don't
know the meaning of that last word, look
in the dictionary. Not in the big one, though;
lest you should be "so fatigued." Aunt Maria
is mischievous, you see.

Tell mother if the Irish lass comes here
under her protection, she is to be left at the
house of Mrs. Hunt, very near the Unitarian
church. Good bye. Love to father and
mother, and dony, and Lucy Ann, and Rebec-
-ca, and the book shelves, and Apollo, and
the very walls of the old house. Hoping to
kiss you very soon, I remain

Your affectionate Aunt Maria.

P.S. Carter has told me many funny stories;
but never those you write of.
Dont forget my love to cousin John. I should be
right glad to see him too.

Will you ask Mrs George Searle whether it will
do to leave the Gladiolis root in the ground
all winter? That root flourishes finely; but my
Tigridia, that Lucy Ann gave me, died.

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August '40

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