WHITEHALL, N. Y., Nov. 4,
1850.
DEAR SON JOHN, — I was disappointed in not seeing you and
Wealthy1 while in Ohio; and not till within a few days did I get to
know where to write you, as I have been on the move most of the season. I
should have written you while at Ravenna, but expected every day to see you. We
have trouble: Pickersgills, McDonald, Jones, Warren, Burlington, and Patterson
& Ewing, — these different claims amount to some forty thousand dollars, and
if lost will leave me nice and flat. This is in confidence. Mr.
Perkins bears the trouble a great deal better than I had feared. I have been trying
to collect, and am still trying. Have not yet effected a sale of our wool. I
expect to take some of the best of my cattle to Akron. Our crops in Essex were
very good this season, and expenses small. The family were well when last heard
from. Am now on my way home. Ruth was married in September, and I think has
done well. I want you to write me at Springfield all how you get along, and
what you are doing and intend to do, and what your prospects are. I have in no
way altered my plan of future operations since conversing with you, and I found
Mr. Perkins's views fully correspond with my own. I have my head and hands
quite full; so no more now.
Your affectionate
father,
JOHN BROWN.
__________
1 The wife of John.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 75
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