Lydia Rotch Dean letter to Charity Rotch, 4th mo 4th 1809.

              B-241-9  
             Incomplete letter
		4th mo  4th  1809
My dear Sister
		Altho I have so lately written thee pr
mail so good an oppy offers by our nephews I am in=
=clined to improve it, if it were only to apologize
for imposing such a hasty sad scrawl as that was
upon thee, in wh I omitted much that I wish d to have
said, & perhaps inserted what ever of little conse-
=quence; but I cannot now recollect enough of it to
even help out what I intended that to be- So far I
remember that I wish d to give thee some acct of
our dr Brother s afflicted family, knowing that Sarah
had written & probably given thee what particulars
she could at that time collect respecting the dear departed
one whose sudden change we have to lament 
It is indeed a deep source of sorrow to his Parents & several
branches of the family, with wh they seem dispos d to dwell
from day to day, & from week to week- many circum=
=stances often reviving it in all its force, tho  not with all
its most visible effects- It seems like a dart that is fix d
in their hearts, yet being sensible of the necessity of submis-
=sion to that wisdom wh cannot err, a little healing
virtue appear at times to be desir d from the recollection-
My Brothers thought on second day he could not attend the