on Friday last I wrote you at the request of J D Johnson which I Suppose Has given you Considerable unecessary trouble on acount of your Father. I was fearful at the time I wrote to you that I was giving you considerable unecessary uneasiness & So told Johnsin, but he Said that it was not so. I wished him to woit untill Allison returned from your Fathers but he would not consent on the grounds that if He did not send you a Letter then that he would not Have the Opportunity of writing untill the present Mail So I wrote you of his Earnest Solicitation & He had the letter mailed instantly..2 I now Have the pleasure of informing that your Father is not only out of all Danger but that He is not afflicted with a Disease of the Heart as D^r Allison supposed all along but that his illness arose from an unusual amount of matter being confined in His lungs which occasioned the Oppression of the ^Heart^ & Led Allison to Suppose His Disease was one of the Heart Yesterday & to day He has raised a Large amount of Matter or fleghm from Lungs & is almost entirely Releaved & will

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doubtless be well in a Short time. I hope you will receive this before you get off for this place if you are intending ^to^ come here as I would be very sory indeed for my Last Letter to cause you to Leave any important business that you Might Have on Hands & that required your imediate attention. I hope you will forgive me for writing you as I did without Knowing what I was about & promise for the future to be more carefullHarriett Sends Her love to you all