I intended my dear Harriet to have written You before now—but it has not been in my power this morning I recd. you packet with E’s letter & yesterday the welcome information of C M’s being out of danger—remember me kindly to her father & mother I rejoice that she has recovered—My dear Caroline is very well & very lively—we are now very pleasantly situated at Mrs. Kinsey No 5 Broad way our bed...
I have just obtained pen, ink & paper at the house we have stoped at for the night to commence a letter to my dear Harriet the first line I have written you since I left the Grove. I know you have affectionately sympathized with me in the mournful and solemn scenes I have lately passed through—& I was quite disappointed last eve at the valley when my brother recd. a letter from Mr. Johnson...
The few first days after I came to Quincy namely 19th. 20th. & morning of 21st—She was very weak but we had hopes which did waver much till Dr Holbrook came on Thursday he then declared that 24 hours were very important—that if the Bark did not produce some addition to her strength she must fail very shortly after—she did gain some strength but was uniformly of opinion that she should not...