Kegatank January 17th 1806
Thursday afternoon
Dear Charles
I have just received your affectionate letter by Henry who has had a short and agreeable passage home. He found us nearby in usual health. My own is not so strong as when we parted and Eliza. has been considerably debilitated for a long time. She eats very little, and is frequently complaining altho allway about and apparently cheerfull. We participate in your sollicitude for my dear little grand child, yet I trust to the kindness of our God to preserve it for the Comfort and happiness of its parents, and other near relations. I feel a consolutory hope, in its restoration, when I review the numerous attacks the most of my children have had of the same kind, your dear little creature has suffer'd. I can't but think She is cutting her fore Teeth, and again she may not have got well over her fatigue of [standing]. I beg of you to