Tabor, Fremont County, Iowa, Sept. 12, 1857.
Dear Wife And
Children, Every One, — It is now nearly two weeks since I have seen
anything from home, and about as long since I wrote. . . . We get nothing very
definite from Kansas yet, but think we shall in the course of another week. . .
. Got a most kind letter from Mr. F. B. Sanborn yesterday; also one from Mr.
Blair, where Oliver was living. You probably have but little idea of my anxiety
to get letters from you constantly; and it would afford me great satisfaction
to learn that you all regularly attend to reading your Bibles, and that you are
all punctual to attend meetings on Sabbath days. I do not remember ever to have
heard any one complain of the time he had lost in that way.
Your affectionate
husband and father,
John Brown.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 414-5
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