Scarborough April 18th 1841 My Dear Companion I sit down at fathers this afternoon in the little chamber that you used to write in so much when here, to acknowledge the reception of your kind letter dated London Feb. 18th it was really comforting and cheering to my feelings [at] yes it brought th me the most pleasing news that I have had since you left me—even of your health and prosperity and also that you feell that your work is done ...

to Portland and not call upon the friends before comeing to Maine I would just say that if you want to see me and Willy as much as we do you you will not stop on the way any where longer than you can help for I am anxiously looking forward to the first of May which I trust will bring to mine embrace a near and dear friend who has long been absent. I will try to be patient untill the time of your return My ...

My Dear son As I have been giving Phebe some account of our afflictions of late in regard to sickness, I wish to say a few words to you in regard to our temporal affairs. — there seames to be in the movement of things at the present time a kind of intimation that your father will not stay long in this place. I will inform you what I know for certainty but will firstly say that brother Woodruff as you know has assisted your father heretofore by working in ...

she says something more but I trust you will soon have the privilege of peruseing the letter yourself soon. Yours as ever Phebe April 23rd Shuah has been much worse since I commenced writing has been thought very dangerous—is a little better now in consequence of her sickness Mr. M. does not start for N.Y. [upside-down text] When I came on I brought a bed as far as N.Y. for my own convenience & left it in brother ...