Saturday, August 19, 2017

Samuel Washington Johnson to William Still

ST. CATHABINE, UPPER CANADA WEST.

MR. WILLIAM STILL:— I am now in safety I arrived at home safe on the 11th inst at 12 o’clock M. So I hope that you will now take it upon yourself to inform me something of that letter I left at your house that night when I left there and write me word how you are and how is your wife I wish you may excuse this letter for I am so full that I cannot express my mind at all I am only got $1.50 and I feel as if I had an independent fortune but I dont want you to think that I am going to be idle because I am on free ground and I shall always work though I am not got nothing to do at present Direct your letter to the post office as soon as possible.

SAMUEL WASHINGTON JOHNSON.

SOURCE: William Still, The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters &c., p. 160

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