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her cold as when she took cold last spring. I think I wrote you in the Fall that she was better and stronger than she was the fall previous, and I think she was, but she took cold coming home from Utica, and has hardly been so well since. She has been losing in flesh the last part of the winter. I noticed it some time before she took her cold, she is quite emaciated now, excepting her face, which you know always looks pretty full - but it looks [crossed out] seems some thinner now than usual. This failing in flesh seems to me to be the most discouraging symptom as far as I can see. I am writing this quite hastily, as R. & M.A. are