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tained of the Survival of this One, and No doubt 

 Much too Much Care Was taken of her; Kept in bed 

 Long after She was convalescent and Not permitted 

 to leave her room for a Long time She became, Low 

 of flesh and Crabed of Speech; every thing Must have 

 gone on the Smoothest way to hurt her feelings her 

 Phisician the Man she Loved Would not permit her 

 reassuming her Avavocations near Me and told the 

 Mother that it would be highly Improper Miss Eliza 

 Should Draw, Write &'' untill some Months; but that 

 She Might Eat any thing Pleasing to her fancy — this 

 fancy Was not Confined into small bounds. She Eat 

 so plentifully of evering that could be procured that 

 she had several Relapses of fevers — I saw her during 

 this Illness at appointed hours as if I was an Ex- 

 traordinary ambassador to some Distant Court — had 

 to Keep the utmost Decorum of Manners and I be- 

 lieve Never Laughed Once With her the Whole 4 

 Months I was there — 



M" P. on the 10**^ of Oct^ Dismissed me — Not 

 anxious to revisit New Orleans so soon, I begged of 

 her that We Should remain 8 or 10 Days Longer if 

 the familly Would please to Consider us as Visitors, 

 this agreed on, I Continued My Close Application to 

 My Ornithology Writting every day from Morning 

 untill Night, Correcting, arranging from My Scattered 

 Notes All My Ideas and posted up partially all My 

 Land Birds — the great Many Errors I found in the 



