My dear husband,
I shou’d have written to you last week but real indisposition prevented me from following the dictates of my duty and heart in that instance. I have after all my care and apprehensions slipt my [cable] once more, occasion’d by a diarrhea. After this the ague attack’d me and I am but not sufficiently recover’d to write a short letter to you and one to W Gilmor who complains loudly of me. Elizabeth is just getting the better of the ague by the timely assistance of mercury and jallops. So you see we are coming on again after having tasted the delights of this “pitiful complaint” as Leadr Ker calls it. This gentleman has at last paid a visit to Somerset and spent 3 or 4 days with Major Jackson. He was much attended to - Call’d three times to see me.
Eliza has been here a fortnight and today pays a visit to Mr. J Waters' family. She's really the most delightful tete a tete companion in the world, and also a capital nurse.
God bless you
E.U. Teackle
18th Aug.