[Lydia] Maria [Child] ALS to Anna Loring, January 5, 1845

New York, Jan. 5'th, 1845

Dear Anna,

I thank you most affection-
-ately for your beautiful bag. The colors
are chosen with admirable taste, and I
think it altogether the handsomest bag I
ever saw. It happened, too, that I was sadly
in want of a bag. Mine were all old and
worn. They looked as if they came out of
the ark, and would gladly find their way
back again, away from the storms of the
world. Tell dear father and mother
that I thank them cordially for their
present. I never saw so beautiful a
specimen of daguerrotype.

I intended to send you the
Broadway Journal, a new paper, in
which I make a prominent figure; but
John says he sent it yesterday. I rely upon
you and brother Convers to admire every-
-thing I write, be it what is will.