looks very ill. In one of your letters you said that you wished I would try to cultivate flowers. As I like to do all I can to please you I have commenced to do so although I fear that I shall not be very successful. Our garden is in such a bad situation and nothing appears to grow well in it but I shall do what I can. It will be a little amusement for me, and when you return I shall get you to assist me. Do you still persevere in early rising? I am seldom in bed after 7 o'clock which is I think a good hour for this season as the mornings are cold. I shall get up much earlier in summer. The mornings are then so beautiful that it is shameful to waste time in bed. I look forward with much pleasure to summer as I am in hopes that I shall have you with me for some