I cant help longing for you here, I went out to your house on 4th of July with Papa and you may imagine I missed you. Papa hardly seems to gain at all. He is very feeble and miserable. Some one has to be with him all the time and stay up with him every night. I sat up with him a few nights ago, and it was dreadful. All the rest of the house so still and the stars shining down dear and quietly, when I stepped out on the little balcony for a breath of air, and then in the room all dusky shadows and poor Father's dreadful coughing and groaning. I expect to sit up with him to night and I dread it. After this however we will all be relieved some what, for my Aunt Sarah Stanton has come to help us take care of him, and will be a great comfort. Poor Mamma is almost worn out, and dear Millie I can't help being blue and discouraged. It is all so dreary and there doesn't seem to be any help anywhere. But I must'nt trouble you with my complainings in the midst of your pleasure, must I? Only please think of me a little. I have seen quite a little of Alice Hoag, but almost nothing of Lucy [C?]. since you went away. Lucy comes down sometimes in the evening with George, but I have not been inside her house since Commencement. She told me the other evening that your Cousin—that Miss Campbell was visiting at Mrs Benjamin's