| 327can see nothing, but uncertainty not to
day a sad reality in the future now before
me. My dear wife was laid upon her bed
seven weeks ago, and I much fear, will
never be able to leave it. Her disease
which at first seemed to the prevailing
Diptheria, soon began to exhibit evident
signs that her lungs were seriously affected
and to make both her Physicians & myself
fear that it is a case of tubercular consumption
She is reduced to a mere skeleton, and to
the weakness of a little child. My heart
is truly sad: -- but I am willing to have
even that{underlined} {illegible} in the right hands. Owing
to that cause I have already lost most of my
summer visitations; and from the lingering
& uncertain nature of her disease I may
be compelled to {illegible: pray?} by other, and | 327can see nothing, but uncertainty not to
day a sad reality in the future now before
me. My dear wife was laid upon her bed
seven weeks ago, and I much fear, will
never be able to leave it. Her disease
which at first seemed to the prevailing
Diptheria, soon began to exhibit evident
signs that her lungs were seriously affected
and to make both her Physicians & myself
fear that it is a case of tubercular consumption
She is reduced to a mere skeleton, and to
the weakness of a little child. My heart
is truly sad: -- but I am willing to have
even that{underlined} {illegible} in the right hands. Owing
to that cause I have already lost most of my
summer visitations; and from the lingering
& uncertain nature of her disease I may
be compelled to pray by other, and |
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