North Hudson, N. Y., March 15, 1851.
I have drawn an order on you, payable in board of
Mail-carrier, horse-feed, or oats, in favor of Mr. Judd for $7.09, which you
will oblige me by paying in oats at forty cents per bushel, or in board as
above, whichever he may choose. When you can sell my stuff please pay your
father $2.00 for me. I also wish you to send on of my shingles that Hiram Brown
carried out, two thousand to Alva Holt, as we settled about the oats on
condition of my sending him two thousand. I wish you to open an account of debt
and credit with me from this time on, as I shall have a good many errands to
trouble you with. I wish you would notify Mr. Flanders by letter at once (if
Nash calls on you for the $3.00) to go ahead with the suit. Mr. Kellogg told me
he thought the Trustees would settle with me, were he to write to them. We are
getting along very well; the boys are still ahead, and Jack is with us. Mr.
Blood talked of taking the shingles before I sold the two thousand to Holt, and
said he would go and look at them, and give me $1.50 per thousand for them if
he liked them. I wish to do the handsome thing by him about it. Would be glad
to have you see him about it. My love unceasing to Ruth.
Affectionately yours,
John Brown.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 107-8
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