Scope and Contents Should have written him earlier but expecting his "face to get well every day" did not wish to write until he could advice him of the circumstance; can wait no longer; "tis so nearly well and yet not well"; has determined to say nothing about it; trusts that in a few days he will be in good health again; they arrived there from Orange Court House in seven days; they got there safely after a dangerous trip; travel[le]d every day from 3 a.m. to 11 p.m. with nine passengers inside and six to eight outside; it was generally rainging; could tell him the story of a Frenchman but will put it off except for his wife's sister from Louisiana "whose health is yet delicate"; was reported that morning that cholera made its appearance at Louisville, 30 miles west of them; does not believe it but it might be true; Mr. Talbot, formerly of V[irgini]a, called to say, he rec[eive]d a letter yesterday from Winchester, Virginia saying the cholera is raging in Cha[rle]s Town, Harper's Ferry and Sheperdston; in the former place eight have been attacked and five died, the other three were not expected to live; alarmed by the news asks him to write immediately and let him know if it's true or not; will be miserable until he hears from him on the subject; would say more but wants to get letter out in today's mail; his wife would send love but is in the country and doesn't know he write; she will write in a day or two; asks him not to fail writing immediately; his best love to sister Mary [Little] and all the family, the Croses, Tooley, Campbell, Dr. I., Mr. Vanwyck, etc. 2pp. ALS.