
          short visit I fear,
 If you do not mind 
 children in the house 
 (& we can keep them out 
 of our room.) You
 had best come & take 
 possession of a spare 
 room reserved for you, 
 and have a week 
 with me, before 
 the 15th prox. [proximate], say 
 come next week. 
 No use asking the 
 girls now, to leave 
 Sneden's, and 
 indeed, we have only a 
 bed for you. 
        