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Martha, I hope I have not displayed
any want of feeling in the preceding
lines, if I have such was not my intention.
It was my only wish to afford consolation
and though absent in the flesh yet
present in mind. I must say
Farewell
The blessings of God be
upon you and all,
Williamsburg Monday morning July 22, 1849
How numerous have been the changes
since my last note, some have through
a merciful Providence been deprived
of friends & there have been laid on
beds of sickness . Some have been
murmuring and repining against
the will of the Almighty. Although
we have slightly afflicted in the
sickness of one of the family.
William has been excessively ill for
the last week with a most violent
dysentery, the most obstinate of
all diseases, even when checked in