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July 5,1874. 

Dear Gorham:

Many thanks for your note of last week, and also to Anne Maria for hers. I don't expect to hear anything particularly cheering about Pa, but it is nevertheless a great satisfaction to hear of him frequently, and I thank you all very much for writing as often as you have done latterly.

I can only add a word of caution to you about the necessity of inducing Pa to change his position frequently in bed, and to rub the parts on which he reposes often, in order to prevent as much as possible the formation of bed-sores etc. You have a great deal of hard and fatiguing work, and I wish that I could manage to be with you to share your labours of love with you, but I cannot do so as yet, at all events.

It is a happy circumstance that the weather has been so comfortable, and I hope it will continue to be so, as otherwise Pa would be much troubled, I am afraid. 

You asked, in one of your letters recently, if I had discovered the house in which Carrie's sister lived in Paris. I have not endeavored to do so; I only wished to know it, in case we should be obliged to leave John alone in Paris, in which case we should be very glad to get him established in some good family who could look after the boy a little. But I think we shall all Try to spend the Winter in Paris, so as to be with him and to look after him ourselves; He is a good boy, we think, but like most boys of his age he will not be injured by being at home. I don't know how the Paris winter will agree with Mary and Emily; but we can try it, and if they suffer too much, we must break up and migrate towards the south of