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Chase discusses his health and tells his wife when he plans to return home.
Date
4-5-1830
Keywords
Dudley Chase, Henry Chase, Philander Chase Jr.
Recommended Citation
Chase, Philander, "Letter to Sophia Chase" (1830). Philander Chase Letters. 847.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/847
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Cumberland Md.
5th of Apl.
2 oclock in the morning
My dear Wife
I have just re’d two letters from Br Dudley of the U.S Senate, and thinking you wd. like to read them I now inclose them for your perusal
I am better: tho’ deprived of my sleep: I get naps it is true in my chair and sometimes by a few moments in bed: but I wake up in distress, & so it does me but little good.
I am still confident that if the Lord will I shall set off for home on the 12th of April 1831
Your loving Husband
P. Chase
If Henry will be [a good] Boy I will bring him a pen knife. And [the] same I say of Philander