I have just received a letter that has well nighCorrected:well-nigh separated soul and body and the first thing I thought of doing was to go to you like the Mother of old

A letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. informs me from the house where George my son is stopping. that he is but just alive not able to sit up with what they call consumption of the bowels He reached Enterprise Minnesota on his way home to me and there had to stop too feeble to get farther If I am with this body next Mond.Expanded:Monday I shall start for him with it although I am sick To–dayCorrected:Today and know nothing of the route to him. O Doctor, tis only in you I have Any hope and can't you save him? He is too good too noble and self-sacrificing to be lost to this world even in example

All I ask all I hope for is that he may be spared to me save him save him if you can He shall be brought to you if he can possibly bear the journey

Since the above some thingCorrected:something tells me not to start that it is now too late Oh Doctor I k [?] Unclear or illegible now not what I have written