Autograph letter signed : Chelsea, to "Jenny" Carlyle Hanning, 1841 November 24.

Offering words of encouragement; enclosing a letter from America; saying "I do not exactly know what part of Canada it is dated from ; but the place lies some hundreds of miles Northwest of where your Husband is likely to be. Our Brother seems to be going on in a very prosperous way then. On Sunday last, the Dr. shewed me a letter he had written for you : it appeared to be full of rational advice, in all of which I agree. You must pluck up a skirt, my good little Jenny, and see clearly how many things you yourself, independent of all other persons, can still do. You then, can either act like a wise courageous person or like a fool, between which two ways of it then lies still all the difference in the world for you! As Jack says, you have done nothing to degrade yourself; it was another than you. I attest and believe always that no person whatever can be ruined except by his own consent, by own act, in their world. Your little bairn will get to walk; then you will have more time to set to some kind of employment; this will be your first consolation.