Letter to Clara Martisha Woodruff Beebe, 20 October 1885
My Dear Clara
It seems a good while since I heard
any thing from you My Last letter
to you was the 3 Oct I would be
glad to hear from you and know
how you are and your Mother & the
children I got a letter from Phebe
Snow last night I think
from her Account her Mother
is pretty badly Hurt she says she
is ownly able to set up long Enough
to have her bed made She thinks
also that Wilford child has got
the Diphtheria and thought it
would die I want to say to you
& to Owen Blanch & Alice I dont
want any one of you to go there or any
other place whare the Diphtheria
is If the Diphtheria once gets estab-
lished in a family of children it is
Liable to carry to the Grave all the
family of children If a child of
mine was to die of that disease
