“On April 30 Lucy cheerfully reported that, after three days' illness, she was on the mend. Although she had no mirror, she could feel twenty pockmarks on her face. 'I am almost glad you do not see it.," she wrote, "I don't believe I should get one kiss and yet the doctor tells me it is very becoming.” American HistorySmallpoxYAcnnmSmallpox Vaccination Book:Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married Source: Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married