Holograph, signed.
Sarah Pugh congratulates Maria Weston Chapman on the visit of the Laugel family. Pugh heard from James Miller McKim [M'Kim] that Maria W. Chapman agreed with him "in his situation which I also accept as the wise one in these times." Sarah Pugh spent the summer in a "quiet agricultural region," and may try living in the country in the winter. In the postscript, Sarah Pugh asks Maria Weston Chapman: "Are you not rejoiced that the country is at last up to the point of publishing H. Martineau's History?"