
          Cambridge, Monday Eveng [Evening]

Dear Friend

Your letter of ___ reced [received] 
Friday or Saturday has got mislaid
in the confusion & anxiety of the 
last day or two, probably it 
is in Jane's Room, but I 
cannot go there to look at this 
late hour, without [crossed out: disturbing]
disturbance. I must briefly
speak of some points I recollect, 
by memory. You know 
that an invalid cousin of 
Jane's, a daughter of 
Mr. Brace, your old correspondent, 
has been with us for the winter, 
her father not being at house-
keeping & a widower, had no 
proper home for her. The dear
good girl has been growing 
sicker, bleeding at the lungs, &
        