In the early summer of 1849 cholera broke out in Cincinnati, and soon became epidemic. Professor
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for him in turn to spend a season at the Brattleboroa water-cure.
He went in June, 1848, and was compelled by the very precarious state of his health to remain until September, 1849.
During this period of more than a year Mrs. Stowe remained in Cincinnati caring for her six children, eking out her slender income by taking boarders and writing when she found time, confronting a terrible epidemic of cholera that carried off one of her little flock, and in every way showing herself to be a brave woman, possessed of a spirit that could rise superior to all adversity.
Concerning this time she writes in January, 1849, to her dearest friend:
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