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Elysia Feb. 14 1834 Elysia Feb 14/54 Dear sister Lucy

My last letter reached you I presume soon after the date of your last. I hope you will not wait for another before writing me but lest you should, I am hastening to send this, though I cannot command just now quite as good leisure as I want. I thought as [??] when yours came, that I would write the next [day]. I keep thinking of Percie and the [??] of his having other and more seven months of that dreadful disorder the [??]--he is just the subject for it with his chubby shortness. "the doctor" says the best thing to do is give [??] [??] freely and irritate the skin of the throat. The great thing is I suppose to take it as the beginning. The change you make concerning the 'muck-rake'