Springfield, Sept. 1, 1847.
Dear Daughter Ruth, — I have not heard from you since John left
to come on here; and I can assure you it is not for want of interest in your
welfare that I have so long delayed writing you. We got over the tedious job of
moving as well as we could expect, and have both families comfortably fixed.
Frederick has been under the treatment of one of the most celebrated physicians
in Massachusetts, and for some part of the time has appeared to be as well as
ever, but has not appeared so well for a few days past. Your mother is quite
unwell with a bilious fever, and has been so for a day or two. We think she is
doing well now, and hope she will get around soon. We have almost all of us
complained more or less since we got on here. We have heard from Akron every
few days since we came on. All were well there a short time since. Our business
here seems to go on middling well, and should nothing befall me I hope to see
you about the last of this month or early next. John says he will write you
soon. I supposed he had done so before this, until now. We are very busy, and suppose
we are likely to be for the present. We expect you to write us how you get
along, of course.
Affectionately
yours,
John Brown.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 145
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