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Jan. 24-31
Mr. Stack [preaches] in the morning ....At night a sermon from Mr. Butler....Daddy comes for me early Monday morning but Dr. Leitch thinks I had best stay a day or so longer. How disappointed I am. Mary Walker is at home and will stay for a week and to think I won't see her. Daddy has hardly left before I begin to feel badly. However, in the evening I feel well enough to go to the Town Hall to see a collection of Paintings. They are pretty but not very fine specimens. Tuesday morning in bed with measles. Remain there for a whole week. See a good deal of the old folks from home; the younger ones are forbidded to come near me. The disease makes me feel very sick but Dr. Leitch and Cousin Lou say they are not hurting me. What a kind heart cousin Isabella Leitch has; she comes to see me every day. Cousin Lou says I'm a great patient. She and the Doctor are as kind as possible to me. I don't think I could have chosen a better place to be sick away from home. No one could be better nursed and Mary Anne is such a good Mammy.
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