Washington D.C. Oct. 29 /65

Dear Father

I wrote you a letter about a week ago telling you of Lewis' illness I have heard from him since he is much better. he sent me a copy of his speech before his night school which I think is very good, but the paper in which it is reported I think a miserable sheet that is the True Communicator it presents a sheet full of typographical errors.

I expect to reach Rochester about Monday evening November 6 I have been down sick with fever and face ache for the last three or four days

and am not able to be out as yet or attend to my duties here at the Hospl. The weather is getting quite cool down here and is very aguish most everyone is complaining of chills and fevers. I see by the paper that Montgomery Blair has been making a speech in Rochester he thinks such men as Sumner, Phillips, yourself and Stevens are dangerous men.

Love to Mother. Hoping to find all well on my arrival I'll close.

Aff. Your Son

Chas. R. Douglass

continued fevers is the cause of my bad writing