
          [upper left diagonally: First part
personal. concerning
illness of George Gray & 2nd part]

8. Ashburton Place, Boston, Friday 7th

My Dear Friend

To-day I got your letter of the 5th.
But I am afraid that I shall disappoint
you about naming Emory's plants. I wrote
you that George had been sick, threatened
with the typhoid fever that we often have here,
but was convalescent, nicely. Two days after he
had a relapse, and has had a very serious time
indeed. I have been in his sick room nearly all
the time, and find my strength a little reduced
and my arm tremulous, so that I shall not
write very plain. He had got so well (without
having a course of fever) that Dr. Wyman consented to
his going home, as vacation  was near. The day
he went into town, to pass the night at the Loring's [Lorings']
as Jane desired (so as to take the cars the
next morning) I was so busy that I saw little
of him. He exerted himself to [too] much, and the
next morning fainted on rising. The fever developed
itself anew, with rather grave, though not unfamiliar
symptoms, and went on pretty well , till a week
ago, when hemorhage from the bowels set in. Arrested by
        