Letter. 18 May 1834. Muhlenberg, Henry Augustus Philip to Rebecca Hiester Muhlenberg: Page #1

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<placeName>Washington</placeName> <date>May 18. 1834</date>.

My Dear <personName>Rebecca</personName>.

I am obliged to you for writing to me on sunday last as usual. I feared as I had not written to <personName>Hiester</personName> very positively that I should return to <placeName>Washington</placeName> that you might neglect it & that I should thus be disappointed which would not have been very agreeable as it would have been like a hungry man missing his dinner. I wrote to you however on sunday & again, after my arrival here, on Tuesday morning one or the other of which letters would have bro't me a reply if you had omitted writing on sunday.

I have not yet entirely gotten rid of my cold although it is much better than when I wrote last time. It is owing to that I presume that I feel uncommonly dull and heavy so much so indeed that I am scarcely fit to write having seemingly no ideas in my head.

<personName>Hiester</personName>s letter & <personName>Henry</personName>s also of last week have been received. I am pleased to find they think of me and shall give them a reply before long.

We have had most uncommon weather here ever since I have returned. It has been sufficiently cold nearly all the time for fire & we have had several sharp frosts. Yesterday however the weather moderated & to day