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Dear All I have taken the pen but really I am very much of a blank having but little knowledge or thought disconnected from sickness anxiety and watching for weeks that are passed. I have repeatedly asked my good husband to answer your very interesting letter but reading interspersed? with an occasional nap is so much more agreeable that I have failed thus far It is five weeks since Stephen's children were taken with Scarlet Fever Mary? severely and a few days first The girl who had lived with them the past winter had been to NY to secure a place in a few days was taken poorly which proved to be the measles thus making four to be taken care of. Many? very ill and Esther's children had not had the measles which contributed to E's? anxiety she having the greatest dread of the complaint they had great difficulty to find helpers to care and do for the sick John Gaskin was