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Very interesting 3+ pp. stampless cover letter dated Good Water, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, Feb 22 1844, with excellent content re a fatal epidemic from Lucinda A. Downer, a teacher in a Native-American school, to Mrs. Harriet H. Crandall, West Killingly, Connecticut, postmarked Fort Towson, Arkansas with manuscript"10" postage rate. The letter reads, in part, as follows, "I was ... expecting to go to ... the quarterly meeting ... I did not attend the meeting, but took a cold, as usual ... T has been many deaths this winter and t are many now sick. In the early part of the winter t was an uncommon disease for this country appeared first at Spencer Academy about 20 miles from ; 3 of their number died before they disbanded their school; 2 after they went home. The physicians do know what to call it, but think it appears like the putrid sore throat and some call it the black tongue. I think I had a slight touch of it ... we went to Mr. W's ... we kept on with our school after we returned ... About three weeks after Mr. H was taken and was quite sick, after his throat got better, the disease went to his head and he was in great distress in the daytime for 2 weeks, [and] at night he was more comfortable. He had just recovered so as to be able to be about the house, when his children were taken sick ... the next Wednesday one girl died; was buried Saturday; Tuesday morn another and Wednesday morn another; both laid out in one room. Thursday Harriet Dukes died at her home -- the little girl that I have often written about, that wished to go to the North if she could ... died Weds, was buried in the afternoon ... Susan Thompson, that died Tuesday, was kept until Friday, waiting for her friends to come, but they did not and she was buried at the same time that H was. The corpses were taken to the meeting house and a funeral and buried in the new burying ground by the meeting house. In one week four of our scholars have been buried t I have been sick. We had no school last week, all except 187 have gone home and I expect these will remain , most of them orphans, or are as so far from home that they will not have time to go and return before we commence school again [on] the 9th of March, if we are well. All this in 2 weeks. Surely we live in a changing world, and how important that we are also ready when the first little girl was buried. Harriet walked with me to the grave, and in six days she was laid t H. was a member of our school and I hope she was a Christian, only 9 years old, a very good scholar, would compare with any that I ever see in the U.S.A. I was very much attached to her and I think she was to me. I went to see her on Wed., but she did not have her reason all the times. I could not stay but a short time as t was so many sick at home. When I bid her goodbye, she asked me when I could come again. I told her as soon as I could, but did not see again and I cannot tell what her thoughts were, but she told her mother sometime after I came ... I had gone way off to Norwich [Conn.]. Our Heavenly Father has dealt very mercifully with us in our trials, Mr. and Mrs. H., Miss B. and myself have been able to be about all this time, except Mrs. H. one day with sick headache ... Aunt Joanna (Black), our cook, has been well ... will finish your letter today. I will take it to the P.O. tomorrow, so I will try to think of something beside the sick and dying, but since I commenced writing, we have heard that Mr. B. Brashear, Mr. Gleason's interpreter, is died. Lived about 2 miles from ... This disease usually commences with a sore throat and headaches, eyes blood shot, blowing water from the nose, and collects around the teeth, tongue in some cases black, but not always fatal. When the tongue is black, we have had several cases that have ... [are] always fatal ... We have had several cases that have got well. [If t is] swelling of the face and eyes, delirious in a few hours after, most fatal when seated in the back part of the head and neck. Mr. Horace Pitkin was he...
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