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My dear you little know or think of the heavy trouble or loss I have experienced since you left me when I read your letter from London your Fathers then long very how his sickness was occasioned by a very severe cold and how the [indecipherable] only then six months sick & continued till the 1st March when my husband departed this life & left me to only lament his loss he was so thin before he died that I could carry him in my arms like a child. He often talked of you & wished to see you - I was left with a small helpless family.
Now [indecipherable] if you have any affection for your distressed mother & helpless orphans shed a tear of tenderness for any distress is great. heaven knows I was in hopes to find a husband & a son in you & at your return to be an assistant to your helpless brothers & sisters they give their love to you& day & night pray to God for you as for friends