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Copy please on marked part Remsen Feb. 22 1886 My Dear Daughter Jane We have lately had two or three letters from you, and were quite sorry that you had been so long kept in suspense and in such anxiety with reference to your brother Robert's sickness-- before you heard that he was better. The way it happened (I think) was this-- After our first letter by Sissy, I wrote, I think it was the next day-- But snow storms then commenced to come, and for several days the cars could not go-- and the mail stopped. I feared then that our second letter could not reach you for several days after the first one. Robert + Mary are in New Graefenberg since a week ago last Monday (11th). He is getting better as you will see by the inclosed letters from them which we got yesterday. We had a letter yesterday also from John, quite a brief one-- in which he says Sarah had not had chills since they had written the week before. and she had then been free from the chills for three or four days-- so this would make about 10 days since she had had any chills. Frankey was quite well. John's health was improving. Yesterday was our Donation day. The roads were very bad, with snow drifts-- the last Sabbath having been such that I was notable to go to Penymynyd-- Still we had quite a company though not nearly as crowded in the evening as you have seen in former times. The Donation in money was $196-- goods about $16. Some of this, of course, would have come in as contributions or salary, if we had not had the D--n-- Still it was a good Donation considering this state of the roads-- Mr J.W. Roberts was as active and faithful as ever. He frequently asks whether we have heard from Jane-- and want to be remembered to you. All of us joining in love to you I rem your affect father Robert Everett I wrote to Rev. J. Williams, Palmyra - to thank him for the affection him and his family had shown to my beloved daughter and I received a very kind letter from him in return-- they seem to have been much pleased with the visit-- and Mr. W. spoke very respectfully indeed of your school and of the feelings of your friends with reference to it at Hudson.