Montreal, September 1st 1859.
Dear Sir:— It
is with extreme pleasure that I set down to inclose you a few lines to let you
know that I am well & I hope when these few lines come to hand they may
find you & your family in good health and prosperity I left your house Nov.
3d, 1857, for Canada I Received a letter here from James Carter in Peters burg,
saying that my wife would leave there about the 28th or the first September and
that he would send her on by way of Philadelphia to you to send on to Montreal
if she come on you be please to send her on and as there is so many bouts
coming here all times a day I may not know what time she will. So you be please
to give her this direction, she can get a cab and go to the Donegana Hotel and
Edmund Turner is there he will take you where I lives and if he is not there cabman
take you to Mr Taylors on Durham St. nearly opposite to the Methodist Church.
Nothing more at present but Remain your well wisher
JOHN SCOTT.
SOURCE: William Still, The Underground Railroad: A
Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters &c., p. 105
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