Part of the letter is missing and the text is incomplete. Armstrong writes to her two sons from Amherst about the cancer in her breast; Dr. Ovaitt; having the cancer drawn out; she might as well stayed home; asks her sons' advice; if it was not for this little cancer she longs to get home; she is very lonely; wants them to come and stay with her if it is necessary; what she has writing about, some things keep to themselves.