Eight months have passed since he was last with his family; received Joanna's letter of the 31st; health has not been good; caught typhus fever; recovered at Uncle Barley's; plans to work in the factory during the summer; can have this place for thirty dollars a month; thinks Potsdam is a suitable place to live; Darwin wrote to Pamela offering to take the child that P. Potter had sworn onto Plin; smallpox is prevalent in the country.