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Dear Sister
At last, after two weeks of agony, Doctor, and being bedridden, / I have risen + crawled in dishabille with my swollen arm to a rocking chair / to the fire. Since Theodore write for me to Mary, I have been more / sick than before, + though my general health has for two days been good, save weak- / nefs, my arm is still a spectacle + a pain.
I have pined very much, been sad for lonelinefs, wished for moth- / er, whom I wrote to have come up in Friday last + when I expect surely by tomor- / row’s Boat, _ and last not least, I have felt the want of a letter from you + a prom- / side one from your husband _ to whom present my best wishes + respects, though his neg- / lect hardly deserves a remembrance. I have grown I fear, quite pet- / ulant, but you see my first use of convalescence was to write you by my amanuen- / sis Theodore; + this is being quite good you must allow when I tell you, my / Doctor, who has been my daily visitor these twelve days, cheers me with the pros- / pect of a well blistered arm tomorrow.
We had a terrible storm of rain from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon, a cold / northeastern, but today has been as bright as dreams of heaven + mild withal.
Thank Mary for her kind letter, I am glad that Dr. Beakley called, + that the / gentlemen have united on her [round? accord?], so that she is reconciled to New York, + is now / convinced that it is a good place for Florence. Thank Grandmother for my very / pretty bag which she sent me, it is just what I wanted; the children too were delighted with theirs; tell her I [haved] wished for her a great many times, I believe if she had / been here I should have been sick hardly any. The sight of Mother will help / me I know with her kind attentions, + I long, I afsure you, to [wear] a sling /
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And walk about the room. I shall also expect an early letter from / you + I give you fair warning that I shall not write you another until / this is answered. Tell Mary that the first letter I do write, will be to / her + that she must not cease in her kind epistles to her poor sick sister. /
Give my love + remembrance + best wishes to Sarah + to all, keeping much your / self. I send with this some night caps + some inside hand / kerchiefs, which please accept: Please give to your Husband, with my best wish - / es, the accompanying purse which I promised him, + of which I beg his acceptance.
All are well, Harriet is rather better than formerly + very busy though not / married yet. Eliz. is not married, she is very well + is [an] [“Best”] + Belle. All enjoy / the most outrageous health, except
Your affectionate Sister
Jane.
Theodore desires his love to Mary + Florence, the latter he thanks for writing to him + will / soon answer, + he desires his best wishes to you all.
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Mother arrived on Tuesday morn’g in the boat, she has enjoyed her visit very much / + looks younger than many of her daughters in this way, she sends her ove to / all. Jane is a little better, though he arm is still very much swollen, pain- / ful + utterly uselefs although she sits up a little. She [m–??] ki[??] [lots?] / [this] [letter?] + the [things?]
Tell Mary if she hears of anything of which I wrote her in my letter, at [N York] / to write me immediately yours, Theodore –
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[ADDRESS]
To
Mrs S. A. Irving.
No. 342, Broadway.
New York.Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
