News from home

Roaring Spring Va
May 7th

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Mr. Samuel C. Gleaves
Glade Spring P O.
Washington Coy,
Va

(Other misc drawings and scribblings)

Cripple creek May 6^th 1840

My Dear Samuel
Nothing but the purest love and the great interest I feel for you Doing well that actuates me this morning for I feel inadequate to the task
Your granmother health is very bad at this time she has not been able to sit up for low on three weeks and without a great change I do not think she can live
The balance of the family are all well and we have had another one aded since you left Eliz has a Daughter and calls it Elmira  Samuel I have now news that you would feel any interest in your cousin Lis Gose is not maried yet but Atkins continues his visits but how it will terminate I cannot tell

David Gose married Miss Susan Umbarger last week Mrs. Watson left here 3 weeks ago on a visit to town and has not returned  I do not know wether she will board here this summer or not
There is one of your cousins here from Tennessee badly cloathed and very ignorant your father is sending him to school to Cornutt  I fear that it will not profit him much for I think he is a man that is so weak minded that he cannot bear much of any thing though he flatters himself that your granmother and father will make him rich for he has had boldness to ask your granmother for 5 negroes – enough  -- the store house is finished the firm has sent on goods and I think he

will do very well Mr. Ballard a younge man from Grayson keeps the store

Samuel I want you to write to me all the particulars of the college and if you heard any thing from Russell and what Charles Smyth is about and Sally Syths weding and from your cousin Mary Fulton how she is coming on for Do no expect go to the examination owing to the situation of my family I think be imposible to leave home

Write to me what you are asudying (studying) and how your cloths holds out an I intend sending you a pair pantaloons and awescoat for the examination and if you want more than that let me know ware what you have there for they will be to small for next sumer read all the spare time you have something that will be lasting and the last reques I make of you is to be a good boy and dont engage with bad boys in any thing that will tend to sink your repputation

Samuel Wythe wishe me to let you know what he is engeed in makin a water Melon pack in hopes that he will have the pleasure of your company in eating time Robert very often asks me when I am coming home James is very busy gathering Ginney eggs for you and your father has returned from brush Creek and he found a bee tree and say he will cut it when you get home your uncles Johns family are all well and a(u)nt Nancy the(y) send their love to you

Samuel Direct your letters to roaring sping as the post office is not established here yet

The family all send there love to you
Farwell my Dear Samuel

Malvina Gleaves