Henrietta Webb Letters

family have had very bad colds. Some of our neighbors are afflicted in the same way. Mrs. Tillinghast & Mrs. [Morning Owery?] & called yesterday. They both spoke of you & joined in the woeful lamentation, "he is without a wife." I think Mrs. Tillinghast is a charming woman. Their oldest daughters are both teachers. Sara Ann has a school in VA & Robin [?] has one at home. Nanny [?] & Eliza [?] expect to leave next week. I have seen but little of them. I went over one evening to see them, but they were not at home. I carried sister over to Dr. [?] ____'s Thursday evening. She seemed disposed to enjoy her visit - & yet - the fear of having done wrong to go, troubled her all the time she was there & hastened her home. The last thing she does is always wrong with her. Dr. [?] Lays [?] is gone to [Lynos?] which is now in session [?] in ___ ____.

[Sick?] wants to go to the ___ __ to conferment, could you come home and go with him: maybe you will find __ in the mood- ___ ___. you say Whitlow shall and so and whal [?] Shall, I say; if the ___ is __ in ___ I can answer in,- but- if you ___ dead ___ as it is generally thought a man of your age out to __, do on only say, please yourself and you will please me, so __ doesn't __ a ___ and ___ a __ ___ Billy HOrne a few days ago, the