[Lydia] Maria [Child] ALS (mutilated) to [Ellis Gray Loring], May 9, [1855]

{Note: This page is torn and missing words on the right side from the top to the bottom}

Wayland, May 9 [?]

Dear Friend,

I enclose two no[?]
beg you to forward to their design[?]
is to be sent to Mr. Hovey's store, [?]
other is for Mr. Manix, the color [?]
and contains some money, which [?]
Stearns gave me, toward furnish[?]
boarding house.

I came home quite refreshed by [?]
though almost worn out by ex[?]
I got separated from my plagu[?]
bag, by an accident, and so lost th[?]
Wayland, and staid at Medford [?]
That shows the danger of ever [?]
carpet-bag pass into another's [?]