52 John Bach man. 



I thank you for your letter: you will be remem- 

 bered when I reach New York. 



Try ever to please 3'our mother, and then I can 

 cheerfully subscribe myself, 



Your affectionate father, 



J. B. 

 To Miss Mary Eliza: 



My dear Eliza: Your letter was a very good one 

 for a ^irl of your age, I am glad that you promise 

 to write again, and to try, each time, to improve up- 

 on the last. 



I hope on my return, that your mother may be 

 able to tell me that you have been obedient and in- 

 dustrious. Kiss grand-mama Davis* for me and 

 tell her I thank her for having helped to keep alive 

 our poor little Ellen, (one of the twins.) 



Your loving father, 

 J. B. 

 To Miss Jane Lee Bachman: 



My dear daughter Jane: When you are older» 

 and when your eyes grow strong, you, too. will 

 write me a letter, and try to do as well as the rest of 

 the girls. 



Tell your teacher to let you have a holiday when 

 f^ither comes home, and give a " howd'ye " from me 

 to all the servants. Your loving father, 



J. B. 



To Miss Harriet Eva Bachman : 



My dear little Harriet: Your father will not for- 

 get you. Be a good girl, and, on Monday morning, 

 quite early, you will get up and say, '' father and 

 aunt have come home," and then we shall open the 

 trunks, and then — ! Kiss little Julia for me ; tell 

 her to learn to talk plain before we come home; and 



*A devoted friend whom the children called Grand-mother. 



