Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Mrs. Gray, 1841 Jan. 30.

Reporting that she took the girls back to school: "your lively little daughter was chattering the whole way." Effie's box was too large to be taken, so that Mrs. Parker now has a chance to have her clothes mended and altered. She was not feeling well for a day or so, and Mrs. Parker is having the expense for medicine and doctor put on the school bill. Mrs. Gray has "every reason for comfort and satisfaction in the character and conduct" of her "dear child. She is so artless that I think she could not do wrong without confessing it," and has gone back resolved to try hard for a prize. It will be more difficult to win, since she is now among the older girls. Mrs. Parker hopes that she will return for Easter holidays, and often thereafter. She will be glad to hear that the Grays' children have recovered from measles.