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| Things weren't going all that well
for the IU president. His wife had recently gone for a visit to Wheeling,
WV, and already he missed her. Looking forward to her return, he was
concerned because there was an outbreak of cholera along the Ohio
River at Madison, and he urged her not to come home until it was safe
again. The year was 1835, and the writer was IU's first president,
Andrew Wylie. Some of the Wylie family letters are available on the
Web, courtesy of the Wylie House staff. Read about the lime kiln ruined
by the heavy rain, son John's accident at the sawpit, and substitute
cook and housekeeper Nancy Swift, "without whose assistance we
could not get along at all."
http://www.indiana.edu/~libwylie/
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