SUNNYSIDE, Nov. 6th,
1857.
DEAR FRIEND:— Eight more of the large company reached our
place last night, direct from Ercildown. The eight constitute one family of
them, the husband and wife with four children under eight years of age, wish
tickets for Elmira. Three sons, nearly grown, will be forwarded to Phila.,
probably by the train which passes Phoenixville at seven o'clock of to-morrow
evening the seventh. It would be safest to meet them there. We shall send them
to Elijah with the request for them to be sent there. And I presume they will
be. If they should not arrive you may suppose it did not suit Elijah to send
them.
We will send the money for the tickets by C. C. Burleigh,
who will be in Phila. on second day morning. If you please, you will forward
the tickets by to-morrow’s mail as we do not have a mail again till third day.
Yours hastily,
G. LEWIS.
Please give directions for forwarding to Elmira and name the
price of tickets.
SOURCE: William Still, The Underground Railroad: A
Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters &c., p. 111
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