Elizabeth Anderson, letter, to Martha Black, 1847 November 25

As I promised to write to you I will now fulfill my promise You told me not to write to you untill we had heard from Father we have had three letters from him since he went away the first one was from Baltimore where he had been quite sick it was a bilious atack brought on by fatigue we recieved another letter from him after he had got to Pittsburgh he had got better of his sickness and we in Baltimore and had gone on his journey he crossed the mountains in the stage which was about 70 miles they had got along without any accident untill they had entered a village called Brownsville where they were to take the boat for Pittsburgh and about fifteen rods from the boat when they had turned a corner and were going down a gentle descent at a gentle trot when they met a waggoner and before the stage driver could stop his horses the front wheel of the stage ran down into a [illegible][guess (mkr): gailles] by the side of the road and over set the stage and threw out the passengers there was about 14 in number including the driver and there was not a bone broken and only two men hurt one of which was Father he was thrown on the pavement and struck his head and right shoulder which stunned him considerable and two heavy men fell on him. we recieved another letter after he had got to [illegible][guess (SYA): Canverbury] he was better