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26th

My Dear Son Isaac & Nettie I feel & have felt a great deal of anxiety about your health tho' Charles writes me that you are both improving in health I perceive by the ill looking Dags you sent that you are making large drafts on your constitution you think you cannot leave there, till that road is done what if your health should be entirely broken down & lost before that time what good would your road or the pay for it do you in lieu of it
 I rejoice to know that Antoinette is coming away I think it an excellent plan for her to come away early in the season and stop with Ann till she comes (the first of June)
  Why cant you come there during the hottest of weather, what if the road should be a year longer in building & save the health of all the Laborers on it - which of all the Engineers would be willing to give his life for the whole road. Do try your influence to stop the whole proceeding for a while in the hot weather
 We have all been almost sick with Colds. I had a very severe cold in the first of the winter. But had got over it & went to Bangor thinking to stay thro' the coldest of the weather. But came home because when Josie was sick he and baby have been sick enough to be very troublesome and require a great deal of care & attention but Charles need not be anxious about them we are being very careful and nursing them up nicely probably they'll be all well long before he'll know they have been unwell. I dont know but I shall get to dislike this Climate in the winter as bad as that in the summer - there are 4 sick at Mr. Livermore - young David has been confin'd all winter with lame knee. Mr. H. Sargent is very sick yet. I spent a week very pleasantly at Bangor with Lucy Eliab & Maria - every is so nice & comfortable there I've had a cold & cough ever since I came home but it doesn't make me sick.