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and [underline]distressingly[/underline] home-sick poor child! they reached home on the
afternoon of the 22nd of 11th Mon. and that night Rowly was taken sick
and is still confined to the house; - little Fanny was attacked the night
of the 24th and for two weeks was quite sick, - so that Ann has had a weari-
some [deleted] time, [deleted] as they were obliged to be up a good deal at night with
the children. - Dr. May was sent for, and thought it first that Rowley was
threatened with Typhus fever, - but after staying nearly two days, he felt
hopeful he would get along without that, - and he has thus far, - for
altho' feeble and appetite poor, his fever has passed off and he is [underline]slowly[/underline]
gaining strength: so that now we feel quite encouraged to hope he
will soon be better. - Aggy and Fanny are quite smart, and their Mother
can rest well at night: we are now pretty well assured that they have all had
[underline]canker-rash[/underline], in a rather mild form, as other children in the neighborhood
have been affected in [underline]some[/underline] degree similarly.

12th Mon. 25th. This letter was begun several days ago - but could not be finished
at the [underline]first[/underline] sitting, and until to-day I have had no leisure to resume my pen
much as I have wished to do. - My thoughts have often turned to thee and
thine - my dear cousin, in the interval, with an earnest wish that our
meetings could be more frequent than is now the case, - or that we would
at least [underline]write[/underline] oftener, - I am aware of my delinquency, and ask thy forbearance
or rather forgiveness.

We have all been deeply interested - as you have probably been - in the
imprisonment, trial and death of John Brown, - for altho' [underline]we[/underline] cannot
say his [underline]measures[/underline] are such as we could unite with, yet we must be [impress?]
with admiration of his firmness, his unflinching adherence to what
he believed [underline]right[/underline], and the christian spirit manifested by him, - truly
he was a brave, a noble man, and his death will inflict a blow, which will