Ashtabula, Ashtabula County, Ohio, Monday, July 18, 1859.
Dear Father, —
Yours, dated at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, July 5, and mailed at Troy, New
York, July 7, and also yours of the 8th, with enclosed drafts for one hundred
dollars, I received in due season; am here to-day to get drafts cashed. Have
now got all my business so arranged that I can devote my time, for the present,
entirely to any business you may see fit to intrust me; shall immediately ship
your freight, as you directed, most probably by canal, from Hartstown (formerly
Hart's Cross Roads, Crawford County), to the river at Rochester, Pennsylvania
(formerly Beaver), thence by railroad via Pittsburg, etc., as you
directed. Shall hold myself in readiness to go north on any business you choose
to direct or confide in my hands. All well; have two or three letters from [New
England], which I will forward to J. H. [Kagi].
In haste, your
affectionate son,
John Smith.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 534
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