Harper Hospital
		Detroit March 20
	Dear Mother, Sister & Bro.
		I am happy to
inform you that I am free again
as I left the Pest House this P.M.
having been thare two weeks minus
one day. with the Small Pox,
and now I am back in my old 
Ward and I feel like a free man
I had the Small Pox very nice
just enough to make a good thing
of it so I need never fear it again
and Oh you may be shure I am
so glad of it. for now if any of
my folks have it I will not fear
to care for them and do know how
to treat a case of it as well as any
one. thare was only one person
Died with it in the two weeks

I was thare. that was a boy from my
Ward the one I took it from.
thare is some twenty-five or more
thare all the time. in the City Pest
House. I suppose you may think
strange of my not writing to you
for two long weeks but we wer not
allowed to write any letters from thare
for fear of sending the S.M. in the
    letters. but I told Augustus to write
and tell you where I was so you
would know the reason.
	I understand that some of
the Fenton-ites have been pulled
out by the last draft all right
if they will not go without.
	I found Augustus and
DeWitt both well
but I must close as I am tired
this is the first day I have been all day
off my Bed. Write soon
	Love to All. from one tired
	[illegible] Boy B.F. Marsh

How. are. you Old Small Pox