Excerpts from page 4:

"At the Porte St Martin I sat through a French Drama of six acts called the "Hotel de tete noir", in which a very gentlemanly physician poisons six people, a death for each act, the different methods of dying were quite amusing, some falling lifeless flat on the boards, and others going through gymnastic exercises...after he had killed off a great number of the characters, those remaining seemed to treat him with great distinction and consider him quite a virtuous hero, that I supposed to be the French morale-"

"At the Hippodrome, the great circus of Paris, they have lately introduced bull fighting, last Sunday..."

"John must not fear the premonitions of the Cholera, he tells me that Tucker was also a victim, ask him if Crasso was not sympathically affected, it would be strange if his bowels did not yearn for his friend. I have not at present the physique to  write another letter to John (being "so dissipated here in Paris that I can hardly live") but will endeavor to grind one out for the next steamer."

RHS

Original letter courtesy of the  Delaware County Historical Association Archives, Delhi, NY