Anna Hazard Letter to Charity Rotch, New York, 9 mo 8, 1821

              B-260-10  
   
                                              New York   9 mo 8th  1821
              My dear Sister
                                It is with a degree of mortification that
              a second letter from thee should reach me before I had made
              an acknowlegement of that which gave an account of thy
              sickness.  the contents claiming my sympathy altho they have
              remained untill this time without the expression of the
              solicitude which has pervaded my mind.    and rejoice now to hear
              that thy health has nearly regaind its usual standing
              and that Arvine is also mending.  I have been out to
              day to visit E Barker who is very poorly with a sore
              throat which the Doctor calls inflamatory and found she
              was a little relieved by applying a  blister,but she looks like
              a sick person and being under the necessity of exerting herself
              on account of her infant,the task is arduous,indeed with
              all her care she has a hard struggle.  Robert has had the
              intermittment fever which might have passed off lightly
              had he patiently submitted to the confinement but his ex
              posing himself has brought on a relapse  which perhaps
              he may pay for dearly.   A coulord woman who lives with
              them has also a sore throat of the same kind.  which was
              lanced inside,while I was there, and she appeared a little
              relieved that at present they are an afflicted family.
                      in reply to thy enquires about Annas dress as well
              as I can recollect I believe was a deep blue Riding dress