RICHMOND, VA., February
16th, 1861.
DEAR BROTHER STILL:— I received a message from brother
Julius anderson, asking me to send the bundle on but I has no way to send it, I
have been waiting and truly hopeing that you would make some arrangement with
some person, and send for the parcel. I have no way to send it, and I cannot
communicate the subject to a stranger there is a Way by the N. y. line, but
they are all strangers to me, and of course I could not approach them With this
subject for I would be indangered myself greatly. this business is left to you
and to you alone to attend to in providing the way for me to send on the
parcel, if you only make an arrangement with some person and let me know the
said person and the article which they is to be sent on then I can send the
parcel. unless you do make an arrangement with some person, and assure them
that they will receive the funs for delivering the parcel this Business cannot
be accomplished. it is in your power to try to make some provision for the
article to be sent but it is not in my power to do so, the bundle has been on
my hands now going on 3 years, and I have suffered a great deal of danger, and
is still suffering the same. I have understood Sir that there were no difficul
about the mone that you had it in your possession Ready for the bundle whenever
it is delivered. But Sir as I have said I can do nothing now. Sir I ask you
please through sympathy and feelings on my part & his try to provide a way
for the bundle to be sent and relieve me of the danger in which I am in. you
might succeed in making an arrangement with those on the New york Steamers for
they dose such things but please let me know the man that the arrangement is
made with — please give me an answer by the bearer.
yours truly friend
C. A.
SOURCES: William Still, The Underground
Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters &c., p. 202-3
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