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Lexington June 12th 1836

My dear son
I have five of your letters, laying before me at
this time unanswered. You have been apprised of my illness
through your Uncle T. and Bob. I am happy to say I am much
relieved, at least I am free from the feaver [fever] which I was first
attacked with. But I am a grate [great] suffer [sufferer] from indigestion. My strenth [strength]
returnes [returns] very slowly. I have quit all medison [medicine] my only
dependence now, for my intire [entire] recovery is riding which
I do as much as I can. I expect I shall go in Clark County
in a short time for the benifit [benefit] of a certain spring of
medical watter. [water] I feel it my duty whilst I am in this
mortal life to imbrace [embrace] every opertunity [opportunity] that presents
itself to promote my health.
Robert received a letter from you on saturday last
I forget the date, but I remember you wrote it in
Georgia, and I remember you saying you were writing
on your cap in the woods. You also say you had got
a letter from your Uncle informing you of my sick-
ness, Bob wrote to you on the same subject and direct-
ed to the same place, I was more than surprised that you
did not get his letter, I do regret it very much indeed,
it is seldom he is in the spirit of letter writing, and
if I remember right one of his letters before this was
lost, but I hope you may get it yet. Your brother has
delicate health since this summer, I think a northren [northern]
climet climate] would be better for his constitution, he speaks of
seeking a strange time this winter, and so will the
Judge and Christy. Elizabeth is now spending a week
at her Fathers. You ask why she dose [does] not write to you, the
only reason I can offer is that she has a very sore hand
and her right hand too, she accidintly [accidentally] received a cut with
a carving knife on the joint of her thumbe [thumb] to the bone
she often speaks of you to her dear babe as though it
could under stand all she was saying, yes Uncle Theodo-
re has become very formilar [familiar] with us I expect
Josephine Cristy will know you as soon as she sees you, you
have been discribed [described] so minutely to her, I could not
help laughing last evening at her smartness, I was describing your
person to her, she stoped [stopped] me in the midst of my discription
[description] by saying yes, yes, I know mama told me, but the joke was
she was tired hearing it so often