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Chase updates his brother on his recent injuries, from which he is suffering but hopes also to be recovering.
Date
3-26-1830
Keywords
Rev. Mr. Johns, Congress, Mr. Ruggles, Mr. Kane
Recommended Citation
Chase, Philander, "Letter to Dudley Chase" (1830). Philander Chase Letters. 839.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/839
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Cumberland Md.
Mar 26. 1830
Dr Brother:
The Rev Mr. Johns of this place wrote you at my request giving you some information as to the extent of the sad accident lately befallen me here. I have been waiting with much anxiety for a line from you in ans’r to that letter. But hitherto have been disappointed. I know you love me; therefore have no doubt something has prevented. I know also that you will be glad to be informed how I get on with my broken ribs & dislocated limbs. Better much better than was at first expected. Fear tho’ there are many more bruises and fractured ribs than at first discovered yet a healing process seems to be going on in all. I have been bled very often. This has kept down inflammation a most desirable object. I have as yet taken no rest on that which [which] so emphatically called “Nature’s sweet Restorer” the Bed. My whole time has been spent in a kind of Chair of State they have fixed for me. How magisterial I look in it, not being able because of my broken Ribs on each side to turn to the right hand or to the left. Did you ever read of King [Carnate] being “toted” (the [Virgin] [ears] would call it) to the sea shore and there commanding the sea to be still? So do I look in my chair! And if I had an angry Congress as he had an angry sea the effects would I be historically the same
This brings me to end of my letter which was to beg you to speak to our good friends Ruggles & Kane &c about the Township?
This has been in my head every moment. If I don’t get it I fear I shall die. Then if so – what members of Congress shall my ghost haunt all their days? Ask some of them this question.
Do write to your loving [but] smashed-to-pieces Brother
Phi’r Chase