Scope and Contents Note Nashville June 17th 49 Friend Douglass I expect that you think by this time that I had either forgotten you or had died with the cholera, but no such thing. . . . I suppose that you have heard how dreadfully the cholera has been at work here, and I expect the good people of Lebanon are so frightened that they will be afraid to receive a letter from this place for fear that it (this letter) has that dreadful malady, and only waits, like Pandora's box, to be opened to...