Handwritten letter, continued — life at the Walhalla hotel, the Supper Bell, omnibus from the depot, plans for the Photograph of the Sea

A handwritten continuation page, blue ink in a sloping cursive on plain paper.

House ^thing had been burned. They seemed to be very pleasantly lodged & had among themselves the [security?] they desired. I hope we shall get letter to night. The Cars arrived at the right hour last week & we [ne’er?] heeded the Supper Bell until something had been told by [strikeout] Mr Campsen, who came in there with his family to this house — or rather in this Omnibus — for this depot is 1 3/4 miles from the Village or this Hotel. We breakfast at 7 1/2, soon after the ladies take a walk, then disappear to their rooms until 2 P.M. to dinner. Walk in the cool of the eve & sup about 7 1/2. Our chambers are on each side of a wide Passage running the length of the house — & piazza in front on the South. The Passage is painted the brightest & varnished green & is the play place for the children — sometimes rather too much noise, but so far no quarreling. Four or five were ^by added [by] last night’s arrival. Whoever writes, ask them to tell all — even so insignificant is Valuable. I know how it would be increased every Mile which took us from home — if it would be God’s [will] to end this awful War!

One of the boarders, Mr Cox, offered at Supper to take letters for us — he is to leave tomorrow 3 A.M. — which is the inconvenience here. The Cars leave here. If the “Photograph of the Sea” has not been received, ask your Uncle Edw. to send it to the [Barrons?] to go to Mulberry or Whitehall, through Mr Lucas as he thinks best. — I fear we shall have no