1840-1842] Charlotte and her Baby 63 



little anxiety for two days lest I should not be able to nurse; 

 nobody ever [pulled] thro' so smoothly and I do feel most 

 grateful for my and Charles's great happiness, and now I 

 will stop, for prudence sake, my dear trio, with kindest love 

 to your three husbands. 



Ever your affectionate sister, C. L. 



This event, happening some ten years after Charlotte's 

 marriage, caused the most intense joy, and the Allen aunts 

 write in a rapture at the thoughts of Charlotte with a baby 

 in her arms. Edmund was almost a son to Elizabeth and 

 was the delight of the Maer household. 



In February, 1842, Sophy, the second child of Jos and 

 Caroline, was born. This was an equal subject of rejoicing, 

 as the parents' grief for the loss of their first child had 

 remained quite unappeasable. 



