September 2
Elizabeth devotes all her mornings to teaching Lotty & Harry and in so doing tires herself very much and in the case of Harry is conferring a benefit most thankfully received. I know no one so cultivated and elegant in her manners as Elizabeth, or accomplished, she has a disciplined, and highly improved mind, and is the help to her parents & her brothers & sisters, and the adorning attraction to the family circle.
Gabriella is trying earnestly to cultivate herself, and I am afraid labours too hard to attain her object. She is graceful and elegant looking & posesses a natural cleverness of expression, very admirable, but her morbid feelings are the cause of much unhappiness to herself. Lotty will be very handsome when she is fully developed and through E’s care she will be a cultured & elegant young woman.—Harry is naturally clever but is not steady enough to do very hopefully.—
Ann Smith & Mrs Eddings came to see us yesterday afternoon & Juliett Eddings, Miss Atkinson from the other Wing came in to tell us good bye she is going to pass some time with her Sister, Mrs Dozier the wife of Lieutenant D who has a house in Charleston.—