Rachel Todd letter to Charity Rotch, Farmington, June 10, 1815

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	                   Farmington  June 10th  1815
	My Dear Charity
	              The anxiety & solicitude I have ex-
	perienced in thy account for several weeks past, has
	been greater than I can express- at a time when I was
	hoping to see you, & impatiently waiting for the day
	that would bring you to our arms, which were almost
	spread to received you,.(for we had been inform d that you	
	were on your way hither) I was accidentally told by a
	neighbour of ours who had been to Boston, & saw a man
	(as he said) only 16 days from Kendal, that you were danger
	=ously ill with the spotted fever, a disease more dreadful
	to me than any other, your case was represented to me
	as being nearly a desperate one, & indeed that it was hard-
	=ly possible that you could continue more than one or two
	days after the man left your place of residence; my
	dearest Charity, no one can judge better than thyself
	what must have been our feelings on this occasion-
	we know that such kind of reports are frequently ex-
	agerated by passing from one to another, I hoped & en=
	deavoured to believe that it might be the case in this
	instance, however it was hard to reconcile it- I regretted