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Columbus. O., Rev. J. H. Jones's Study, 6 1/2 P.M. Wed May 26 - 58. Dear Mother & Children and all at home - We arrived here all safe and comfortable about 4 this afternoon with the cars from Cincinnati. - have a meeting here this evening. Yesterday afternoon I had your letter, containing also the one from Jane & Anna - Poor girls - I was glad to see that they had not been hurt by that terrible hurricane. I have not yet had a letter from them, but expect one in a day or two at Granville in answer to mine from Tallmadge - How thankful we ought all to be as a family, that their lives were preserved at such an awful time. We have seen no danger at all on our journey so far. We went Monday to Paddy's Run about 20 or 22 miles in a covered Buggy - 4 of us - Mr. Edwards, Mr. Wm S. Griffiths and us both. preached in the evening - and again at 9 and at Paddy's Run 1/2 past 1 - and in the evening at Cincinnati - It rained and rained almost without ceasing Monday afternoon and through the night. The clouds seemed to pour it down - and the rivers & creeks rose in such a way as to carry off several bridges, and some trestle work - so that the cars could not come on from Columbus to Cincinnati - but against this morning all was fixed up again and we came without hindrance or any obstruction. It is time to go to meeting - so will let this be till the morn. - Rev. E. M. Morris's study, 5 1/2 A.M., Thursday - You see by this date where I am - We both stopped last night at the Morris - wished well and feel refreshed this morning for another day's work - had a good meeting last evening - it was held in the town Hall - the meeting house being a small one - Saw several with whom I had been intimately acquainted in former years - Rowland Rowlands and his wife - Rees Roberts from Browntownship - 7 of his sisters, all married women, who reside here were in meeting, Edward Lumley & wife and some others - Several persons were in from Browntownship which is about 10 miles distant - crowding around us at the close of the meeting very affectionate indeed - enquiring about mother and the children &c &c -