Akron, Ohio, June 23, 1859.
Dear Wife And
Children, All, — My best wish for you all is that you may truly love God
and his commandments. We found all well at West Andover, and all middling well
here. I have the ague some yet. I sent a calf-skin from Troy by express.,
directed to Watson Brown, North Elba, to go by stage from Westport. I now
enclose five dollars to help you further about getting up a good loom. We start
for the Ohio River to-day. Write me under cover to John at West Andover, for
the present. The frost has been far more destructive in Western New York and in
Ohio than it was in Essex County. Farmers here are mowing the finest-looking
wheat I ever saw, for fodder only. Jason has been quite a sufferer. May God
abundantly bless and keep you all!
Your affectionate
husband and father,
John Brown.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 526
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