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there sometime one of Es cousins several
days they got a nurse but she would not
stay all the time Mary had a very large
swelling on the side of her neck which distused?
her very much broke also one on the back of neck
then E and Eugene and Julia? all came down with
measles the Patch? boy working for them also sick
Nancy very kindly come? for a day or two but
getting greatly interested in poor suffering M.
staid? near 2 weeks for days her life hembled?
in the balance and even now a very little thing
will be too much It required 3 watchers each
night and strangers could not do? for the
children Esther and Eugene in the parlor and
the girls by themselves but Mary became
so low the that? she? ordered Julia taken out of the
room they remain separate E and I begin
to sit up Esther goes from one room to the
other and waits on Mary now Yesterday
we went there Esther had taken some cod
she thought but hoped to be better soon the
other children had large swellings about the
[illegible] E cais? trouble from fear it may affect
his learning I came home cast thin? I? [illegible] among?
I don't know when I should have got away [illegible]
we had not had our friends? Israel? and Jane
Drake as guests but I hope they wife? get along
I find I can not stand much now adays am
all used up with a little [illegible] I am
better than sometime ago there is? great ^differences?^