Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: being a Judge and witness, of incidents if existing, that might be worthy of the use to be made of them. Your enquiries after my dear Husband will be partially answered by himself. He is better in health than he was two months ago, tho’ still feeble and confined to his rooms?we trust however that with great care against the cold of this Winter, he will be able to take exercise in his Carriage when the Spring season shall cheer us again. I have been afflicted for the last two weeks with Influenza, the violence of which seems slowly passing away, altho’ the cough continues. I send you an engraving from Stuart’s portrait, which tho’ indifferently executed, is a better likeness than Mr. Wood’s, which I would send also, but that the stage has ceased to run to and from Orange C. House for a few days, on account of bad roads. I hope the efforts of our friend Mr. Clay, in his interesting report, to keep sweet peace without a loss of honour, may prove successful A war between the United States and France that would cost both so much, for a cause apparently insignificant, would be a spectacle truly deplorable, in the present state of the World. Ever affectionately yours, D. P. MADISON. I am very thankful, my kind friend, for the interest you take in my health. It is not good, and at my age, nature can afford little of the medical aid she exerts on younger patients. I have indeed got through the most painful stages of my principal malady, a diffusive and obstinate Rheumatism, but I feel its crippling effects on my limbs, particularly my hands and fingers, as this little effort of the pen will shew. I owe my thanks to1835] HENRY ORR, THE WAITER 359 Mr. Smith also, for the friendly lines which accompanied your former letter to Mrs. M. and the good wishes conveyed in your la…