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the heart enlarged larger than the heart itself, and pressing on the air-passage, so that she died of slow strangulation. She leaves 1 daughter (married) husband & his 3 daughters, (1 married) the 2 girls still keep house for their father so that I do not have to move.

At the same time with Mrs. A. my room-mate was taken with the typhoid fever, and went to the Mass. General Hospital in Boston; he has it very light, I have been to see him L. He has very good care and is slowly recovering. I rather think I had a narrow escape for I was almost sick for 2 or 3 days but by taking a heavy sweat it was warded off. I am very well now, and they say growing fat. I have had a pretty good run of work for 3 or 4 weeks, but do not know how long it will last. I received a letter from John, a few days since, in which he says that Grandmother