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Brooklyn Oct. 27, 57 Dear Parents:

  According to my promise to mother, this second day after I left you in the Isaac Newton, these lines are penned.
  You will doubtless learn, ere this reach you of the accident to the New World. I do feel to thank God that you had gone the day before, and I trust have reached home in safety. Cousin Thomas told us this noon all that we yet know of this fearful disaster. Five lives, he says are known to be lost. The news reached New York about 4 A.M. today. Full accounts will probably be in the papers tomorrow and Thomas says he will send you one in which it is given. The night that you were on the river was very windy here, did you suffer any inconvenience from the motion of 

  Dr. thinks it best for me to see him mornings and I always hear better after I come from him and he says I can thus be put in trim for the day - that I will improve faster if I exercise my auditory organs in connection with his efforts rather than to go to sleep immediately afterwards. This seems very rational and more them that I think I shall feel better not to be out every evening. We can accomplish more especially in the line of sleeping with this arrangement. Libbie & unclear send love and wish me to tell you how glad they are that they did not persuade you to stay another day. That