in margin: Injured eye 68 1 1867 Ind. Saturday Mar 9th Dear Mother While connecting a machine belt I accidentally
thrust the point of a file into my right eye last Tuesday and there is the damage I am completely prostrated and the eye is
lost I have been confined to bed since the accident and for the first two or three days could not eat or drink a mouthful
but I am a little better today and hope to be at work again in a month or two I am condemmed by the doctor to dark room for