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            Febuay [February] 18th (62

Miss Galt

                        My Father arrived home in safety

on Saturday evning [evening] with my dear Mothers remains.

She was intered [interred] at 2 oclock on Sunday evning [evening].

The coffin was opened and her family with a large

number of her friends had the mournful  pleasure

of seeing her look quite natural, much more so than

we could have expected. (My oldest brother did not

get home untill yesterday evning [evening.]) (Just one day two [sic] late

to see her.) I received your kind & satisfactory

letter last tuesday [sic] which was 2 days after Father

left for Williamsburg. He says he told you that it came

to hand before he left. It was a mistake he got your

brother's and Mr Proctor's. Now, my dear friend, I can't

find words to express my gratitude to you for writing

the above letter. You can form but a feint [faint] idea of

the comfort it gave me (may heaven reward you.) I am so

sorry that Father did not see the servant woman and

compensate her for her goodness. He regrets it as much

as I do & says he hopes it will be convenient for him

yet to attend to it. Says he thought about it while there

but was fearful that he did not have means enough

to pay expenses home, but after reading your letter and

hearing of her kindness, he is exceedingly sorry. Indeed we

all feel so much indebted to the kind ladies of your

city for healing Mrs Christian & Mrs [Boway?], not forgetting

your brother , that we can't thank you enough.

Now Miss Galt, I don't want to weary you,

but I have a great desire to know if Mother ever

alluded to her former condition after she was taken sick?

Did she know that she had been insane, and why it was

that she had been sent from home and friends? Did she

say any thing [sic] about the melancholy situation she has

been in for 15 or 18 years? Did she give any reason what

she thought caus was the first cause? Did she speak of

any unkind treatment from her family, and did she say

any thing about our treatment to her last year which

looked vey [very] unkind indeed, but we were compelled to

do it. Did she say whether she wished to be buried

at home? Give any directions about her cloths [sic] that were in

her trunk? Did she sleep well after she became [irrational?] , or

did she say any thing about writing for her family to visit her

before her death? Did she seem willing to die for several

days, or was she alarmed and in doubt some times?

Please get the best information you can and write me. Don't

be afraid of distressing me for I really want to know vey [sic] much,

indeed all that I have asked you. Please let me know if the

physicians thought she would die when she first became [com?]

[?]. I did not expect they did, or they would have written to

[us?] Or did they think she would not live untill we could

get to see her? This I would like much to know—it would

be impossible for us to have an unkind thought towards any

one at the Asylum. Be it as it might, we believe the case

[was?] motives good, and of course, are perfectly satisfied, but wish

to know the true state of the case. Excuse me if you

please. I close with a strong hope of meeting you in heaven.

                                                            Mary [S? G?] Cuncliff