Washington City, Dec. 16th, 1821.
dear Sir:
We left Missouri 13th Oct. We were all very well there
during the summer, Elizabeth better than she had been for several years. We
staid two weeks in Kentucky, and left all our friends well there. Mr. and Mrs.
McDowell travelled with us from that place. In the Cumberland mountains we were
stopped five days by some alarming symptoms in Elizabeth and afterwards
travelled slowly to Abingdon, where I left her to proceed leisurely with her
father and mother, and I came on in the stage. She has wrote to me several
times since, the last from Mrs. Madison's, on the 7th, having left your house
the day before. Your mother, wife and family were well, but suffering an
excessive solicitude on your account, not having heard from you for a great
while. Mrs. Preston expected you might be here, but I have written to her to
the contrary.
I expect to be at Col. McDowell's at Christmas, and again
about the first of February. My dear Elizabeth expects to be a mother at that
time.
Nothing essential going on here. The Captain General of all
the Floridas* has resigned. A letter from Nashville states he is now bestowing
his inconsiderate and intemperate abuse upon his old friend the President.
Pray write to us, and let us know how you are and when we
are to see you.
Your sincere friend,
Thomas H. Benton.
Col. Preston, Athens,
Georgia.
SOURCE: William Montgomery Meigs, The Life of Thomas
Hart Benton, p. 130
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