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Vine Land 23 of Dec 1867
My dear friend Amy,
Mine was duly received and was truly welcome
I had been thinking of thee that very morning before I was up and as
I came out [illegible] announced a “letter from Rochester” and as I read the
first lines I exclaim’d I did not believe myself forgotten but am
full of faith as ever _ That my friends are only taken up with other needful
things, and I have not a doubt that they are often thinking of me and
other absent ones when they are not able to secure the time or chance to put
their wishes on paper __ Well since I wrote thee last I have had a short
but severe turn of billious disturbance I think in old times it would have
been termed “overflowing of the “bile” for 3 weeks I was down but I had
good nursing and no doctor We have a good Hygienic Physician
(a woman) and she decided that I would soon rally & pronounced
the attack as “crisis” or being “acclimated” I was soon on my feet but
for a long time was very weak_ having however a good appetite and plenty
of wholesome fruit including peaches and good graham [germs?] with milk
cream [illegible] I gradually gain’d strength but my hair has lessen’d and my
flesh so reduced that my clothes were were loose and I look much
older. My spiritual growth has been very satisfactory to myself
and as I have no “confessor” in human shape I trust my friend
Amy will take my word and grant that I am the best judge
I soon was able to ride out and after a while to resume my walks
tho’ [this?] number is small yet I meet many interesting and
worthy people _ some “friends” who still adhere to the “[form?]”
All the churches are here represented and a friend [illegible] is now
held by indulgence under the [illegible] of “[illegible]”