Letter to Laura Ann Arnold (Jackson)

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Box 2, Folder 31

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Written from Northampton, Massachusetts. Letter regards future purchases for Laura Ann Arnold (Jackson).

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English

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Round Hill
Northampton, Mass.
Aug. 4th/860

My dear Sister,
Your welcome letter of July 22d reached us at this place. I am glad that our sweet cousins (for such are the Murdochs) are about paying you a visit and I very much desire to meet them, but such gratification can not be indulged in at this time as our physician says that Anna will have to remain here until about the 1st of Oct. if she wishes to be cured. He says that he can thoroughly cure her. He says that he could cure me of all my symptoms of disease in from four to six months and as I am improving, I wish that I could remain here until relived of all my troubles or so long as I continue to improve. He says that I have a slight distortion of the spine, & that it has given rise to some of my uneasy symptoms. There are several ladies here who could not walk when they commenced treatment & are now walking as if perfectly well.

Anna and myself much regret that we must again be denied the pleasure of visiting you as we had hoped to do. But I know that at the right time our Heavenly Father will permit us to see you. I am anxiously looking forward to some opportunity during the coming session. I wrote in my last for you to give me a list of furniture, etc. in the order in which you prefer them, and I would suggest that you had better get a lower priced bedstead than ours. For instance, if a cottage one would answer it could be purchased at about half the price that we gave for ours. But if you could consent to lower the price of the other articles, I think that it would be best; of course you would not get things so serviceable & showy but I think that the increased number of articles for the same money would more than compensate.

A cottage bedstead would be rather small; but they are made neatly. I have merely made these suggestions & you must do as you think best & I will do the best I can for you in New York. I will not have the opportunity of stopping by in Philadelphia as my time is so precious. If you prefer the Philadelphia bedstead, I will write to the same person who made ours, & get you one. I send a list of some of our purchases. They were much lower than could have been bought in Lexington.

Anna joins me in love to you all. I wish I could stop in Philadelphia as I might get some things for you and also attend to an important matter. You must give my love to Harriet & the others when they visit you. May you have every needful blessing temporal & spiritual is my habitual prayer. Your affectionate brother,
Thomas

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