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Mother Bangor Me. June 15 1856 Dunbarton

    Bangor June 15th / 56
  Tis Sunday night 10 oclock - but I feel as if I must write a little at least begin a letter to you my Dear Isaac & Nettie I ought perhaps to have written to you before but there seems to be something all the time to do. Beside I have rather a bad cold & Anna & Lucy would feel rather bad if they did not think that I was in bed. I suppose you want very much to hear from Lucy. But I hardly know what to tell you. Her cough & ? seem to be about the same except that twice since you were here she has spit up some blood and bad looking matter, & here she has had severe pain in her side which lasted 2 or 3 hours at a time so severe she could not but ?? Dr. DeWitt says he cannot tell - but he thinks that her lungs are not as yet affected but that it is all occcasion'd by the excessive irritation of the stomach etc. He recommends injections of Meat Broth with a little anodyne Laudenum or something of the kind - think we shall try it as it seems as it could do no harm. She does not seem so strong as when I first came here but she does not seem to have so much fever as she had perhaps this is the reason that she appears more languid. She is greatly afflicted with pain & aches in many