Henrietta Webb Letters

Stony Point - Nov. 19th 1858

My very dear Brother,

Your letter of 15_ ____ mailed in Roxboro yesterday, was received this evening. We were all very much pleased to hear from you & to learn you were well. Health is an inestimable blessing & yet but few of us set sufficient value upon it. You, perhaps, received a letter from me by last Thursday's mail, giving you some reason to look out for a visit from Ma this week. Various things were in Ma's way so that she did not get off this week, though she has not yet entirely abandoned the idea of going; she is so anxious to see you & the Mt. Tirzah friends, particularly the aged & infirm. She hoped such a trip may be an advantage to sister, yet she dreads to make the experiment. The masons didn't get away until this evening. They have built us a very large chimney to a small room. Line calls it the steeple. Ma's new chamber is small, but it is very comfortable. I don't know what to tell you about sister. She is still in a very uncomfortable state of mind; full of notions. She has been making various signs of one sort or another today. She eats & sleeps a little. Ma has seemed pretty well this week. Line & some other members of the