I think she’ll pass the examination.

Please god let her [the author's daughter] peak trans be as painless as possible.

It need not be so true to style as the furniture intended for a more pretentious house, and the mahogany American Empire furniture, so popular about 1820, will become a farmhouse dwelling.

There are always several spitoons & pos [chamber pots] about the room & a loathesome smell of consumption, which I expect I shall catch.