Rec'd sorrowful news this day in a post from Mistress Garrett in Fairfax. Her small son, near two years of age, succumbed to a heart ailment which kept him ill all of his short life. She is grieved at his passing and poured out her anguished heart in her letter to me. She is not unacquainted with death nor loss, yet this little one suffered so and her long hours, days and months of caring for him met an abrupt end so that she is quite beside herself with despair. Praise be to God that His dear servant shall meet her infant once again in eternity and no more be vexed by the tribulations of this earth.