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Quincy, Ill Oct 29th / 54

Dear Brother N- I intended to have written you last Sabbath but Mrs. Fox with whom I board was taken sick with the Typhoid fever & my time was spent with her & all my leisure time since. I am taking care of her to day but will spend my leisure time with you. Fine in regard to Myron's limb - it was not taken off only the old bone taken out. The opperation was severe than amputation but his limb is now gaining very fast. The new bone & the sore scarred in a healthy condition much more so than the Doct anticipated. He thinks Myron will have a good leg again perhaps in a year & perhaps it may take longer. If you were to have seen it you wouldn't have thought from the looks it ever could have been well again. He is now doing well in everything.

[written on the left-hand side of the letter] I had no object in asking of Mr. Frazer only to know if there had been a man where by that name or if he had been written under an assumed name I know nothing of him either from his writings or else ways. He wrote me first what the commencement of the term after you left Marietta & before Josie left (as I showed the letter to her) & addresses it to Miss L. Y. Kendall so I replied to it & told him of her marriage &c. He wrote me once after that & sent me three or four papers & till this September I've heard nothing from him. He found out some way that I was visiting at Quincy & at Mr. Nortzell's [?] & as I met with a gentleman on board the boat with whom I had some acquaintance I thought perhaps it might be him. But from what you wrote it could not be I presume I shall never hear from again as he had left Cedar Rapids before my letter