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quite comfortable. Peach trees are shedding bloom — 

 Corn is mostly planted. But the spring is backward. 

 What time will you meet me in New York & how long 

 will you stay? I shall only be able to accompany you to 

 Philadelphia & leave you to make your visits with your 

 friends as long as you like & shall then want you to stay 

 with me in New York as long as you can be content to 

 do so. I shall want you with me about three weeks as 

 my nurse, for I intend to have another cancer cut out. 



If I should go south next winter I have a great incli- 

 nation to take Josephine with me, though I expect it 

 would be an expensive sort of baggage. 



If Charles & Liela will strive to perfect themselves in 

 their studies I will give them a chance to see the world 

 one of these days. 



Believe me my Dear wife, although absent, still as I 

 ever have been yours with sweet affection 



Solon Robinson. 



The Traveller. — No. 9. 



[New York American Agriculturist, 10:373-74; Dec, 1851] 



[March 24?, 1851] 



I LEFT Athens upon one of those beautiful days of 

 March, which awakens all nature, animate and inani- 

 mate, to the loveliness of spring. I must say I parted 

 with many whose acquaintance I had formed during the 

 few days I spent at Athens, as though they were old and 

 long known friends. Designing to visit Lexington, my 

 worthy host. Captain Wray, set me down from his car- 

 riage at the depot, after dinner, and I went down to the 

 station, which is about three miles from the village; but 

 fortune favored me in finding the carriage of Governor 

 Gilmer and his excellent lady, with whom I took a seat 

 to their large, and, of course, hospitable mansion and 

 little farm, immediately adjoining the town. 



Lexington, Ga. — This is an old town with a look that 

 does not give the lie to its antiquity. It is the seat of 



