ST. CATHARINE. C. W.,
July 2d, 1855.
MY DEAR FRIEND, WM. STILL: — Mr. Elias Jasper and Miss Lucy
Bell having arrived here safely on Saturday last, and found their “companions
in tribulation,” who had arrived before them, I am induced to write and let you
know the fact. They are a cheerful, happy company, and very grateful for their
freedom. I have done the best I could for their comfort, but they are about to
proceed across the lake to Toronto, thinking they can do better there than
here, which is not unlikely. They all remember you as their friend and
benefactor, and return to you their sincere thanks. My means of support are so
scanty, that I am obliged to write without paying postage, or not write at all.
I hope you are not moneyless, as I am. In attending to the wants of numerous
strangers, I am much of the time perplexed from lack of means ; but send on as
many as you can and I will divide with them to the last crumb.
Yours truly,
HIRAM WILSON.
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* Underground Railroad Agent
SOURCE: William Still, The Underground Railroad: A
Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters &c., p. 42
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