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Canajoharie Jun. 5, 1848
Dear Father & Mother

I sat up with Uncle Tuesday night, he rested some. At one time as he woke from a short sleep he says I dreamed I was at your Father's & that he talked the most encouragingly & seemed the most cheerful he had seen you in a long time, that you were the dirtiest he ever saw you, that you been feeding pigs, that he had "had such a good visit & if there was any sign in dreams he should get a letter from you in the near morning." If you have not written him so very soon. He is very week & every little kindly attention is highly valued by him. Wednesday he passed a resteless day, he has the most distressed turns imaginable, says there is no place for the breath, one lung, the left-one, at first was diseased. The distress then moved to the pit of the stomach & last eve, Thursday, the right side seemed affected. Yesterday they Telegraphed Doctor Matthews, whome they expected last night at 11 oclock.

His ease is very doubtful. There seems to be such a chill creeping around his vitals while the body is suffering from burning heat. He has a severe cough, which has not