june the 10 1805
Dear Hannah
You wanted to know about the garden. I first tell you the beans are growing very high, a good deal of your sweet Williams is dead, and your nut tree is very well, we are going to have a crop of scarlet beans over the grass plat, my father's thistle will not thrive; Charlesis Cherry tree grows very well, shot has got a nut tree and some butter flowers, I have no thing to say at present,
I remain your affectionate sister Mary Bloomfield give my love to Mother and Charles