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2 weeks ago, and then fever set in she is now getting better she is able to sit up most of the day Joannas health has improved
a little since she came home she still uses her cane, and as one eye has improved a good deal, we hope the other will also.
Mary is well and has been home all winter, and has been a great help to me through this trying time but she intends going
to Madison tomor- -row David s wife has been very sick indeed, for the last four months but I am glad to write that she has
been improving for the last two weeks an is now able to sit up for half an hour the rest of them are well Sarah and David
Gall paid us a visit yesterday 3 they are all well Margt and her family are well as usual but John s business takes him
a great deal from home now Tonight he starts for the east and will be gone for a month at least your father has wrote me two
letters since he left home, he is well and still likes Hamilton A few weeks ago we had a letter from Racine informing us of
another little girl being added to their family so our circle still enlarges My sisters daugh- -ter Mrs Lunam sent me her
Photograph from Dunbar last week she very kindly sent me some very interesting news about our friends both in Scotland and
England and last week I had 3 large papers from a Cousin that has