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[Sarah] St. Louis, July 1st / 55

Dear Brother Nathan, We were very glad to get your good letter so quickly. We did not look for it quite so soon, very glad to hear from you and David and Erasmus and family so particularly. How glad I am Erasmus has left the business in which he has been engaged. I want to visit him and think I may before a great while. I feared David would get the Fever & Ague. Hope he will not fill his system, as most do, with Colonel, Quinine, and the like to cure himself of it. I have always felt anxious (Perhaps Sister Sarah sometimes looks too much on the dark and cautious side she has had so much in her life to make her anxious by and disappointed) as to the result physically mentally and pecuniary upon him of leaving his chosen business and coming West. I hope it will all be for the best. He has always been so healthy in body, mind, and soul that I want he should continue to be, continue to go onward and upward Tell him to write me a good, long letter. Lydia wrote me from Galesburg a few days after your letter came that you were quite unwell &