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Washington D. C. Feb. 22, 1866 (Thursday) Mrs. Amy Post - My dear friend I returned to this city one Tuesday evening last, and found our aged and venerable friend Sojourner Truth sick, not able to sit up, just out of a park [?], in which she she lay some two hours, said she, "it drawed all the pain out'a my shoulders, an my joints, but I stayed in too long, for I'm so weak I can't stand." I feared she was much sicker than she was aware of, she took a dose of oil [?] which made her still weaker yesterday, but perfectly easy and quiet, and slept well, and this morning she is much stronger, but is still feeble. She requested me to write you and ask for her that you would see her daughter Elizabeth, and tell her and husband, as well as yourself to look [?] out a little place for her, as she intends going there in the spring. She requests her daughter to write her immediately and inform her all about her condition, and whether she is in need of means, or how she is in that respect. The president's veto of the Bureau [?] Bill