possible for me not to have been injured for I was thrown head first out of the chair. I have two or three little bruises on me, but they do not pain me in the least. It was nearly five in the afternoon when we reached the Seminary – the young ladies were just assembling for prayers and it seemed very pleasant to meet together once more. The school is not very full now, but it probably will be in a short time. Aunt Willard got here the evening that I did. It was a laughable circumstance that John and I all along on our road were taken for a young married couple traveling for pleasure – it afforded us no little sport. We fell in company with a gentleman and lady from the west who traveled with us the greater part of the way – the lady had been visiting a sister in Berlin and said she understood it was very sickly in Berlin and mentioned some cases of fever. The worst part of the sickness she said was confined to Worthington Street. It alarmed me some, for I knew it was not the case when I was there. When I hear such reports I always feel concerned for my friends who live exposed to this malignant disease, the spotted fever which seems as it were to sweep all before it. They have as yet been spared to me owing to the kindness of a merciful heavenly father – and I feel as tho his goodness merited my heart’s warmest gratitude. I have met them and enjoyed another visit with them – but whether the same happiness will ever be allowed me again on this side of the grave I alas! cannot tell oh may it be in eternity!