
          Princeton Wednesday
Morning 1/2 past
10 o'clock
July 6th 1844

My Dear Friend

I have undertaken the
melancholly duty of informing
you of the death of our dear
friend Mrs. Rice. She died
this morning after an illness
of about three weeks with
a congestive fever. She was
so much reduced before
the fever could be broken
that she could not be raised
again. During her whole
sickness her mind has been
perfectly clear and [tranquil?]
although from almost the
        