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Lexington Dec 2 1833

My dear boy

Your long looked for has come to hand
at last, and I now sit me down to address you with feelings
some what goomy [gloomy] as I have just witnessed the execution
of an negro man, he was hang'd on a tree in the streete
before my window. He was condemned to death and hun
for killing his wife.

I epect you have not heard of the death of your
cousin Fanny, and her sister-Sarah, and your Uncle--
Guerin. All departed this life with in the space of a
month. Fanny was the first that died. She was sick--
eleven days with an inflamation of the brain. But, str
-ang [strange] to say, she was senseble when she was dying.--
Her poore afflicted Father asked her if she was affaid
to die. She sayed, no, she was not, but she had ant
-icipated to live to be an ornament to society. Sarah
dyed of fever, and Mr Guerin of consumption. Your
Aunt Fanny apears (to judge from her letters) to be in
great distress. She sayes your Uncle Thomas must
take her from that pace [place], or she will die with uarief [grief].
He has not concluded yet what he will do
but he will I expect have to go down there to ar-
ange her business. Doc Ray speaks of moving
from that contery.