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J. & W. Seligman & Co New York August 24 1870 Miss Mary Everett M.D. My Dear girl! I would have answered your ever welcome letter long ago, but partly expected to see you here in our diggings, partly from unclear not what. I have suffered Dreadfully since my return from vertigo & headache, still by mere strength of will have managed to tend to the usual nature of my practice of dispensary. Poor Miss de Hart is down with typhoid fever, for a few Days I feared a fatal result, but I hope, she is over the worst. Mrs. Labeau attends once in a while, but is also fagged out. Miss Williams lies sick at Staten Island & I was sorry, to be obliged to refuse attending her. Miss Page & Furafs? have gone home to Ohio to recuperate, Miss Ferguson has hung the M.D on a peg, & exchanges her name in the fall for Harrah, well hurrah for her anyhow, I always liked our curly head, although she says, now for a ministers wife the curls have to be abandoned. The dispensary at the Women's College is now at a perfect stand still, as it has