Transcribe Arink, Ellen M. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1855-12-01)

shelter and rest - for it was evening, & she wet and uneasy - in a fisherman's cottage, where she was kindly cared for, fed, and ensconced in bed ; but you may be sure there was a great hubbub caused in the goodly city of Rochester by this marvelous disappearance of Miss S. Dewey, and her continued non-return through the whole night. - citizens, es- pecially the young men, turned out almost en masse, to teach & find her. The result was that at four o'lock in the morning she </u was > found as I have described above, and when the mor- vow had fully come, she was taken peaceably home - but it became evident subsequently, that she meditated self-de- struction, and her father was prevailed upon to send her to Utica, where, I learn, she has already so much improved as to appear - quite like the Sophia Dewey of old times. What a long story you will say - one reflection upon it by way