Sep. 8th '11
My dear sister
It wou’d be cruel and ungrateful longer to keep you anxious concerning my situation after the receipt of three letters all in one week, from you, which is an occurrence so uncommon that it argues, in my opinion, extreme solicitude. Why my dear girl, if the truth must come out I have really, bona fide, once more met with my usual misfortune. After the most flattering prospects too. I was so careful, so still and so lazy, that it appears next to improbable at least that evil should come of it. Six weeks have now elaps’d since this event, which I felt more severely than anything of the kind that ever happen’d to me. It confin’d me to my bed 10 days. I might have sat up in the time, though extremely weak, but the doctor advised me to keep quiet. You seem’d uneasy, or curious to know what cou’d make it necessary that I shou’d not see you “in N. for a time”. I thought I wou’d