(seq. 27)

Battenville 1 Mo 17th 1838
P.M.

Dear Girls,

Your long wished for letter
or that of Susan's has this moment
been rcd and carefully perused
over & over again and has now gone
to the house by Danl R. for the inmates
thereof to examine & reexaine for
themselves -- I am thankfull to learn
that you enjoy good health your-
selves & from your silence upon the
subject of the health of your little family
suppose that all are equally favored--
No new occurrence has taken place here
since my last which was mailed in
Arlington VT -- Your Mother is --
afflicted not as much with her constitu-
tional dificulty in respiration as hertofore

Your Grand Parents are also quite
as well & Grand Par considerably
better than two weeks ago----

Your Brothers & Sisters now all go to
the district school leaving none in
the house during the day as constant
inmates but the three -- you have
or will most likely ere this reaches
you have heard of the shocking
outrage committed by the Cannadian
armed forces upon the Steamboat Caroline
and her Passengers while lying at a
small place near Buffalo--For this
Brutal Butchery of human life & destruction
of property no amends can be made to
satisfy the Friends of those who were made