Eliza D'Aguilar letter to Mary Kean, 1839 September 28

              Do not pay the postage -but 
simply direct your letter thus,
 "Colonel d'Agui1ar
	Dublin."
(not to me at all) 
I know the hand & shall open it.) 
		
                       Dublin, 28th Sept /39

Dearest Mrs Kean 
	Though my boy is first the 			
original cause of your so kindly writing 
to me and the object of such maternal 
tenderness in every act & thought of yours, 
yet think not that I can be altogether 				
silent - or hear that you are unwell 				
without most anxiously enquiring how far 				
your health is improved by going to Brighton. 					
God grant it may be very much better 				
and that the cheering news of your beloved 			
son's safe arrival in America may calm your 
nerves and soothe your dear affectionate 
heart - no doubt you have heard from him