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      If I had time I would

give you some of the particulars, relative to my illness, but let it suffice, for this present, to say that I was for the space of a - bout ten weeks without hope of ever recovering - in a desparate state of melancholy or despair.

  Oh how unlike myself I was!
    But I feel grateful to the 

Author of my being that such means have been made us of, as have measurably restored me to health again.

    My head still feels as though 

there were a bandage around it, or rather a weight upon it. My bowels + stomach are yet very much swollen; + there is a cold chill felt frequently on my right side unclear

 But I have nevertheless ventured

to enter the school-room in this