Letter 6057: I wrote yesterday through my own man, struck with fear after you reported the bitter news about my daughter's health.

Yesterday I wrote by my own man, struck with fear, after you reported tidings of my daughter's health bitter to learn, and, the reply still pending, I am tormented by uncertainties. I beg, therefore, to be informed what has been added toward the confirmation of her recovery. As for present affairs, I had resolved to give you no notice of them, lest there return to your ears the very things that you have avoided by a well-judged departure. But since civic affection has drawn your care back to the city's business, I have briefly run through certain matters set down under headings, so that you may learn what has been imparted without weariness of reading. Farewell.

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