Hartford Apr. 21st 1853

My Dear Miss Gilbert

You will very likely be surprised
to get a letter from me, and perhaps you will
be astonished at hearing from me at this place -
It would hardly have occurred to me to write
you but I had made up my mind that I should
have the pleasure of making you a call at Amherst

I expected to have gone from here to Springfield
and to have gone west by the way of Albany - but it
turns out that I have to go back to New York again
from here - and ? not being able to see you I do the
next best thing - and write -- We came down from
Milwaukee abot [sic] two weeks since - Mrs. McGregor
is visiting our friends at Lyons and I have been
spending a few days in New York - We shall go west
again in about ten days though before we leave I
want to spend a day or two in Geneva -

Mrs. McGregor & I speak often of your promised
visit to us at Milwaukee and we shall never
give up expecting it till you come -

I write to you at Amherst on information from
my friend Brigham as to your residence - and
I take it for granted he is correct in the matter -

How does it happen that you have never
made your intended visit to Grand Havers -
We heard once last fall that you were actually