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Hinsdale February 1st 1845 Dear brother Nathan

      I recieved a letter from you a short time since informing me that little brother Marshall had left us to be with us no more in this world. Ah it was sad and unexpected news - little did I think when I bid him good-bye, only so short a time since, that it was for the last time - it seems as if I could not have it so. I regret very much that I could not have sen him while sick and been with him in death. O dear brother shall it be that the present year shall make as great a change in our family as the past - sometimes I fear it may, for when death enters a family how often the case that it takes them all; or nearly all, in a few short years, but brother as you say, we may have comfort in thinking that little Marshall is now the happiest of the happy, free from all the temptations and troubles which we have been subject to and from those to which we are still liable. I think of dear Mother - I think this the greatest of her troubles. O what - has she not endured and yet by her patience and fortitude she has come off conqueror of them all. I have written her but have recieved no answer as yet. Had a letter from brother Raymond a few days since wishing that I should come there, as soon as my school is done, which we