some reality in it. What day does Butler appoint? By the way, how do
"events" of the same sort come on in your family? Are you possessing
houses and lands, and oxen and asses, and men-servants and maid-servants,
and begetting sons and daughters? We are not keeping house, but boarding
at the Globe Tavern, which is very well kept now by a widow lady of the
name of Beck. Our room (the same that Dr. Wallace occupied there) and
boarding only costs us four dollars a week. Ann Todd was married
something more than a year since to a fellow by the name of Campbell, and
who, Mary says, is pretty much of a "dunce," though he has a little money
and property. They live in Boonville, Missouri, and have not been heard
from lately enough for me to say anything about her health. I reckon it
will scarcely be in our power to visit Kentucky this year. Besides
poverty and the necessity of attending to business, those "coming
events," I suspect, would be somewhat in the way. I most heartily wish
you and your Fanny would not fail to come. Just let us know the time, and
we will have a room provided for you at our house, and all be merry
together for a while. Be sure to give my respects to your mother and
family; assure her that if ever I come near her, I will not fail to call
and see her. Mary joins in sending love to your Fanny and you.

Yours as ever,
A. LINCOLN.




1844

TO Gen. J. J. HARDIN.