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Ma received your kind letter sometime since, and has been
very anxious to have it answered before this. if she could write
herself you would hear from her more frequently than you do I
have no doubt. She has been very much indisposed for a week past.
She took a violent cold by some means which affected her like the
croup, she had besides some symtoms of bronchitis, she spit some
blood one or two days it alarmed her a good deal, but perhaps it
was an advantage to her. She has not had so much pain as usual
with these spells, but has been very sick, & still is very sick at
her stomach. she is very sleepy & drousy but the cough medicine
may produce that effect, it has a good deal of morphia in it. she
cough almost incessantly one day & was compeled to use it very
freely. She is I hope better, though not able to sit up at all, &
I trust will soon be in her usual health. I wish she could have
more repose. She allows the concerns of life to worry her so much.
She is so nervous & irratable that nothing scarcely goes right
about her. She has a very unmanageable set to deal with it is true
but if she would take things more quietly perhaps it would be as
well. We have Sukey at home to add to her trials. William had
hired her out, but after trying her a month, she was sent home by
William's consent. The girl at the hotel has been a losing business
in every way. she has become more worthless than ever, & then
we will not get her hire. Mr. Mauck refuses to pay it till her
physicians bill is paid, and what do you think that is? Dr. Butler
sent in a bill of thirty six dollars for services rendered her
during the year. We did not know she was ill enough to require a
physician but once or twice, & then but for a short time. Ma is
unwilling for it to be paid. Says he must sue her first, & this
year she has lost the hire of her. She could hire by the week, but
she is not willing to do that. We could find employment for her,
but Ma thinks it is to expensive to keep so many servants about
her, these hard times. I still hope we may get her a home in the
country, it would be much better for her. We are expecting every
day the little black children to take the measles. William Berry
had them and Tom was obliged to wait on him. he has been sick with
a cold. Emma is quite sick to-day. She has had a cold for sometime,
I hope it will not prove to be anything severe. There is a great
deal of sickness about here. Typhoid Pneumonia is prevailing more
than for three years, but not many fatal cases. The weather is
very cold and disagreeable every body almost has a cold & hoarseness.
Margaret & Willie have both been sick with colds. Margaret
feared Willie would have the croup but she has escaped an attack
though not well yet. Mr, Rodes & Addie got here Saturday evening.
We were very glad to see them. They will remain till the last of
the week. We wish Minna could have come with them. She would have
been a great comfort to her Grandma.
We are looking for Fannie home this week, her brother
wished her to stay with them, but she prefers being with us, &
Miss Bettie gives her as good wages as she could get there. Aunt
Baxter is improving she goes about the house, but has not been
down to see us yet. Lizzie Scott's daughter who is in this country
her friends here on account of [OMITTED]I am sorry
I would have liked so much to have seen her. We were glad to
hear Lida Broadus was recovering we were very anxious about
her, we did not know Anna had been sick, till I received Sister's
last letter. I hope she is quite well now. We were truly glad
to hear you were recovering of your cold, & those disagrecable
boils you were afflicted with. I hope your health will now be
good, so that you will be able to get through the session with
comfort. Caroline wishes me to say to Mary she will write to
her soon. I hope she will receive benefit from the remedies she
is using. Give our love to her & the children. I am very glad
Lucie escaped with so slight an injury. I hope there will be no
scars. Ma & Caroline join me in much love to yourself, Sister,
Maria, Mary, Rosalie & the boys.
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