more than I can tell you when I see her strength failing so fast. She seems to get thinner every day. For a short time she appeared to get an appetite but now again it has completely gone. There is nothing I can make for her which she seems to like. Poor Papa seems quite miserable. Dearest Donald if you were only here what a comfort you would be to both of us. I am now constantly with Mama. I come up every morning by 7 o'clock and remain till about 6. I do not know what I would do without Jessie for when I go home in the evening I always feel in low spirits and she does all that she can to comfort me. How thankful I ought to be that my health is so good at a time like this when Mama requires my attention so much. I do not know what Mama would do if I were unfit to attend to her. I feel very much better than I could have expected indeed I have not felt so strong for many years so you need not love feel in any way uneasy