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<placeName>Reading</placeName> <date>Janry 14th 1838</date>

My Dear

<personName>Mary</personName> and <personName>Jonathan</personName> have just left me, after taking their dinner, and chatting awhile; so I will just write to thank you for your good wishes, expressed in your last;--I hope you may reciprocate those good wishes with me, and all our dear ones.-- For without you and them, life would indeed be a blank, but there is no necessity to anticipate evil; as I will not have any uneasy feelings, 'tho <personName>Henry</personName>'s letter has made me a little fearful, tho I hope he will have the sense to avoid those who have taken the infection. His having no dread of the small pox, is the best way to avoid it, but I shall open my letter to tell him, not unnecessarily to go where he may be may be liable to take it.

<personName>Mary</personName> looks well, very well, and her spirits seem good. I pray she may get over it well, and have no drawbacks as she had last time, for she had a weary time of it, poor soul.

I might have spared you the trouble of reading my last letter, refferring to <personName>Kring</personName>s communication, as he has not called, to know your determination, as he said he would. If he comes I will let him know what you wished me to tell him.

I have written to <personName>Rosa</personName>, and <personName>Henry</personName>, and have very little to communicate, as Rosa's letter contains what little news I

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