Handwritten letter, mid-page continuation

A handwritten letter page in brown ink, written across the full sheet in a flowing cursive. The page begins mid-thought (continuation of an earlier sheet) and ends mid-thought as well. The lower right corner is torn away.

illness = The Dr. thought her so much better on Monday that he did not go to see her on Tuesday — & I think she felt [worse?] than she had grieved & I did not know what to do. I told him to go in the afternoon & yesterday she was too late = It is very disheartening & I hope no more of them will take it for it seems impossible for them to recover = I feel sad when I think of your aunts’ [sufferings?] — & no help for it — & all the trouble added to it — and so are we all a troubled people — directly & indirectly we can trace it to the war. = Katie has gone to buy a qt of cherries from a wagon at the door — I wish we would [send?] a pack of them to the dear little fellows — [Maj.?] Smuggle a Lavender Bay inside this for “Miss Ellen drawer” = Kiss them all for us — [Susie?] & Adela go to Flat Rock to day = Mary came down on Tuesday with Campbell & Kirkwood — The two latter went yesterday to Charleston = Mary, Louisa & Fannie return on Saturday = Mary had to wait on the dentist — She looks very pretty — but is not strong — Mr. Huger & Col. Hatch had left on Tuesday on a survey of the Inlets of the State — he heard at Jones Gap of the attack & he & his Brother Joe left this M[orning] — Had he been able to go fast he [would?] have taken him also as his Son had only gone last Saturday to Mr. Lee’s School in Buncombe = Your Aunts were still in the city