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 health is comfortable now, Willy is smart. Father and Mother
are enjoying comfortable health now they send their love to you,
Mother says she wants to see you most as much as I do,—the rest of
the family are well excepting brother Fabyan and sister Shuah F.
has been unwell with a cold some time but nothing alarming about
him. S. went into Portland 4 weeks ago took cold and has been confin-
ed to her chamber more than a week now and is quite sick, sister Foss
is with her and they have sent for the doctor and father to day. The
family all send their love to you. You spoke of your baggage box
in your other letter and I answered it in my other one—if you could
bring these pitchers in safety that you spoke of I should like to have
our friends see them or any small things do as you think best about it.
I received a letter from Mother Woodruff last night
dated April 7th wherein she mentions sister Eunice illness—say she
has been verry ill and they thought her dying but was better then
although she did not sit up much. she wrote some to you in it
I thought I would coppy it that you may understand it.
to Portland and not call upon the friends before comeing to MaineI 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 health is comfortable now, Willy is smart. Father and Mother
are enjoying comfortable health now they send their love to you,
Mother says she wants to see you most as much as I do,—the rest of
the family are well excepting brother Fabyan and sister Shuah F.
has been unwell with a cold some time but nothing alarming about
him. S. went into Portland 4 weeks ago took cold and has been confined to her chamber more than a week now and is quite sick, sister Foss
is with her and they have sent for the doctor and father to day. The
family all send their love to you. You spoke of your baggage box
in your other letter and I answered it in my other one—if you could
bring these pitchers in safety that you spoke of I should like to have
our friends see them or any small things do as you think best about it.
I received a letter from Mother Woodruff last night
dated April 7th wherein she mentions sister Eunice illness—say she
has been verry ill and they thought her dying but was better then
although she did not sit up much. she wrote some to you in it
I thought I would coppy it that you may understand it.
"Letter from Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff, 18 April 1841," p. 2, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 4, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/PZj2