Hiram Roberts letter to Jonathan Butler 2nd, 1823 April 2

Letter addressed from Philadelphia, with a stamped postmark including the date. The paper is torn and stained with red wax residue where it was sealed. Hiram Roberts writes to Jonathan Butler in West Hartford about his son William Gay Butler's illness. Hiram writes that when William arrived in town he had a severe cold, though he did not think it serious. He kept doing business until a week earlier, when he was taken with remittant fever . He is attended by one of the best physicians in Philadelphia and Hiram has been with him night and day. The fever has been gradually declining for two days and has now entirely abated and William is recovering. He has been able to leave the house with Hiram's assistance, now that the weather has improved. He assures Jonathan that if any unfavorable alteration should take place, he will have the earliest intelligence of it.