My Dear Wife I now embrace this golden opportunity of
writing a few Lines to inform you that I am well at present engoying good
health and hope that these few lines may find you well also My dearest wife I
have Left you and now I am in a foreign land about fourteen hundred miles from
you but though my wife my thoughts are upon you all the time My dearest Frances
I hope you will remember me now gust as same as you did when I were there with
you because my mind are with you night and day the Love that I bear for you in
my breast is greater than I thought it was if I had thought I had so much Love
for you I dont think I ever could Left being I have escape I and has fled into
a land of freedom I can but stop and look over my past Life and say what a fool
I was for staying in bondage as Long My dear wife I dont want you to get
married before you send me some letters because I never shall get married until
I see you again My mind dont deceive and it appears to me as if I shall see you
again at my time of writing this letter I am desitute of money I have not got
in no business yet but when I do get into business I shall write you and also
remember you Tell my Mother and Brother and all enquiring friends that I am now
safe in free state I cant tell where I am at present but Direct your Letters to
Mr. William Still in Philadelphia and I will get them Answer this as soon as
you can if you please for if you write the same day you receive it it will take
a fortnight to reach me No more to relate at present but still remain your affectionate
husband Mr. Still please defore this piece out if you please
Samuel Washington Johnson.
SOURCE: William Still, The Underground Railroad: A
Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters &c., p. 159
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