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Lexington 24th 1834

My dear son

Your letter of April 28th I have received
some time since. You must of received one from me
about the same time. I have thought I would not
write to you untill you would write me, but
I have become impatien to hear from you that I
have set me down to communicate that you have
a Mother who is ever anxious to hear from you
and has the greatest solisitude for your happiness.
How is your health now, have you got rid of the
ague and fever? I fear you are sick that you do
not write. I have not been in good health since March
I am much poorer than you ever saw me perhaps.
I never have been the same in point of health
since March a year. Your brother is well and reasonably
happy, and he hopes to be, in a few months,
the happiest boy living. His Dulceny is still
true to him, and has promised she will this fall
give him her hand for better or worse. Dose it not
sound strange to you? He was but a childe when
you lefte home. You cannot think how unhappy
it made me at first, I was retched; but
upon reflection I found my sons peace of mind
and contentment of life depended on it. As soon
as I assertained this fact, I became perfectly