WASHINGTON, January
10, 1852.
MY DEAR THOMAS,—I
received two or three letters from you since I came here, and should have
answered them with pleasure if my strength and health would have admitted of
it. You observe now I am obliged to employ the pen of a friend. I was very
thankful for the kind offer of yourself and Mary to come here and nurse me. I
should have promptly accepted, if it had been necessary, but it was not. Every
want and wish that I have are kindly attended to. I am surrounded by good
friends, who are ready and willing to serve me; and you and Mary yourselves could
not have been more assiduous in your attentions than are my friends the Calverts.
The state of my
health has not very materially altered. Within the last eight or ten days there
has been some improvement; not so great as my friends persuade themselves, but
still some improvement. The solution of the problem of my recovery depends upon
the distressing cough which I have, and I think that it is a little diminished.
I am embargoed here by the severity of the winter, which has confined me to the
house for the last three weeks. I hope to derive some benefit when I shall be
again able to drive out in the open air. You must continue to write me without
regard to my ability to reply. It is a source of great comfort to me to hear,
and to hear fully, from Ashland and Mansfield. John has been very kind in
writing very frequently to me. Give my love to Mary and all the children.
SOURCE: Calvin
Colton, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Henry Clay, p. 624-5
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