
          I have lost 8 bottles lime water & a gallon
 of aq. dist. nothing more by freezing! My P. did
 not break. Wrote Eliza yesterday at Washn [Washington]


 you knew Mrs. L. She is very different
 from him: she is very elegant
 a great reader & a warm unaffected
 friend. I have lost more than half of
 my best female friends. She alone
 has been added to the list since death
 made the first breach in it. Were
 only one such to fill the great void
 of my life!


 I am on galvanism. I
 fear I must amalgate. I have six
 Daniels cups and nothing else of a
 battery that can be worked. Three old
 troughs, a voltaic pole, Electomagnet
 capable of sustaining a ton & sundry
 electro-magnetic toys, engines etc. all well
 made. But I must write to NH to
 my Christian Democrat P.M. & congratulate
 him on the defeat of his party.
 Rum & democracy have a disastrous alliance.


 Love to all. Hope M. will write soon


 Yours truly


 I F Holton

        