Springfield, Mass., March 12, 1857.
Dear Wife And
Children All, — I have just got a letter from John. All middling well,
March 2, but Johnny, who has the ague by turns. I now enclose another from
Owen. I sent you some papers last week. Have just been speaking for three
nights at Canton, Conn., and at Collinsville, a village of that town. At the
two places they gave me eighty dollars. Canton is where both father and mother
were raised. They have agreed to send to my family at North Elba grandfather
John Brown's old granite monument, about eighty years old, to be faced and
inscribed in memory of our poor Frederick, who sleeps in Kansas.1 I prize it
very highly, and the family all will, I think. I want to see you all very much,
but cannot tell when I can go back yet. Hope to get something from you here
soon. Direct as before. May God bless you all!
Your affectionate
husband and father.
_______________
1 This note from a friend in Connecticut shows how soon the
gravestone was removed to North Elba: [Click
Here].
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