Letter from Aldin Grout to James and Elizabeth Bailey

Birth of a son: "Charlotte's sickness was rather severe, of about fifteen hours continuance, but terminated favorably and as yet both mother and child are doing well. She has yet no milk and the little fellow apparently does not like to engage in anything that is to produce no important result, and therefore persists in a determination to get his living in an easier way than by a dull drawing of the breast." Appointed as Government Missionary to the Zulus at Natal along with Adams; has accepted and hopes to resume his work.