
          Cambridge, Friday evening 


 My Dear Friend 


 Your kind favor of the 12th filled me 
 with much anxiety, which your most welcome letter 
 of the 13th greatly allayed. I am indeed deeply grateful 
 for your kindness in keeping me advised respecting Mrs. T. [Torrey's]
 severe sickness, and beg you will continue to do so until 
 her health is quite reestablished, which from your 
 last advices I trust we may hope will soon be the 
 case. I felt confident, even when I left that 
 the illness would yield at once to proper remedies, or 
 you may be sure I should have remained until your 
 return. I had no idea there was more than transient 
 indisposition before you left; and I was quite unprepared 
 for the serious accounts from Princeton. The intermittent
 must have been contracted at Columbus, where 
 I remember there was a deep fog at night, and she 
 probably slept with the windows all open. I should 
 not have expected [added: any danger from that source] in July. But with the 
 Divine blessing it will soon yield, I trust, as she is 
 probably in a state to bear quinine and the other tonics 
 quite well. How short sighted our plans prove, in
 the events! I anticipated the most favorable effects upon 
 her general health from the journey: the eastern journey
 appeared to do so much good, although  undertaken too early 
 in the season. The weather has been delightful here
 for the last week, a little warm at mid-day: but 
 every afternoon there comes a cool, almost cold 
 breeze from the sea, which feels as if it came 
 express from the coast of Greenland: and the nights 
 are delicious for sleeping.


 The President, Mrs. Quincy, and my old friend 
 Miss [Susan?] have just returned from Niagara, 
 where they arrived at the close of the week on which 
 we left. They make the third party from that family 
 that have visited Niagara this season. Week after 
 next is our Commencement week, and then we have busy times
        