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them. The foot is still greatly
swollen. and I have to keep
it up all the time. It
allows no liberties taken with
it. I am pushed into the big
room every day where I sit
until about nine o'clock,
where I am more than glad
to seek my Donny. You
will agree with me that
it is, not mildly exciting.
I save been pretty patient,
but when I learned, last night,
that, for three weeks longer I could
not put it to the floor, I was

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discouraged. I have sighed for you many a
time and think, so often, of your tender
comforting, and if ever I have need of
such again, which pray God, may not be
soon, I may fall into your dear hands.
My daughter will give one in love to you.

Affectionately yours,
Ellen B. Sherrerd

98 Cliveden Ave
Germantown
July 7th, 1896.