
          [at upper left: [Avd?]. Apr. 15/58]
 Mt Holly Vt 31 March 1858


 Dear Dr Torrey


 I fear you do not
 always read my letters carefully. From
 what phrase of mine you derived the news
 of my marriage as a fait accompli I
 cannot conjecture. Though not the first
 time I have heard of it, it certainly was
 the most authentic statement of the
 fact: it is not so nevertheless. Could
 I have had my own way I should have
 left Vermont ere this aa the lady is
 impracticable on that point "Not before April"
 was the first approximation: "before the 15th" was
 the second and now before [inserted: the] day is finally
 fixed I am quite sure that a delay of a
 week longer will be found necessary.


 I have not now your letter at hand to
 answer: it is in my valise. Your letter
 was addressed to Middleburg, & lay there
 some time before I received it: one from
 Eliza took the same course. Most of week
 before last I spent in Port Henry N.Y.
 with Miss Warren at her brother's who
        