SPRINGFIELD, MASS., 1st
Nov., 1847.
DEAR FATHER, — After some three or four days' delay on the
road, we arrived here safe to-day about noon, and found all here well; but our
hard hearts are never thankful as they should be. Always dependent and
constantly receiving, we are ungrateful enough to be cast off, — if that were
our only fault! Our business, so far as I can judge, has gone along middling
well during my absence. Watson is not yet very stout, but is perhaps a little
improved since I left. We shall all be anxious to hear from Lucian, and from
you all, and how you got home from Austinburg, as soon and as often as we can.
Affectionately yours,
JOHN BROWN.
Mr. Hubbard has deeded his swamp farm to John Sherman. Has
not sold his thirty-acre lot at Munroville, but has offered it for sale to
William Hickox and Kelsey.
Yours,
J. B.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 23
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