WASHINGTON, April 7,
1852
MY DEAR MARY,—I
received your letter of the 30th ultimo, and thank you for it. Your letters
always give me satisfaction, as they go into details and tell me things which
nobody else writes. The state of my health remains pretty much as it has been.
But little sleep, appetite, or strength.
If I am spared, and
have strength to make the journey, I think of going home in May or early in
June, and in that case I wish to send for Thomas to accompany me.
I wish you would ask
your mother to pay a small note of mine held by Ike Shelby. I have just heard
to-day of the death of Mr. Jacobs. Poor Susan must be overwhelmed with grief.
We have had no good
weather yet.
My love to Susan and
the children.
SOURCE: Calvin
Colton, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Henry Clay, p. 630
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