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                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Turin Oct. 4. Sunday.

Dear William,

              I thought I would write a little today as I shall probably have but a few minutes time in the morning. I find Eddie very weak, more so than I expected; but he is nearly free from pain. The fever seems to be leaving him slowly. They hope he is really getting better- the typhoid symtoms have left him. He has not been off the bed at all since a week today. Kate? raises his head a little to rest him by placing a folded comfortable under his pillows. That is as near as he comes to sitting up. He takes two or three tablespoonsful of leef tea