TORONTO, October 4th,
1853.
DEAR. SIR:— I take this method of informing you that I am
well, and that I got to this city all safe and sound, though I did not get here
as soon as I expect. I left your city on Saterday and I was on the way untel
the Friday following. I got to New York the same day that I left Philadelphia,
but I had to stay there untel Monday evening. I left that place at six o'clock.
I got to Albany next morning in time to take the half past six o'clock train
for Rochester, here I stay untel Wensday night. The reason I stay there so long
Mr. Gibbs given me a letter to Mr Morris at Rochester. I left that place Wensday,
but I only got five miles from that city that night. I got to Lewiston on
Thurday afternoon, but too late for the boat to this city. I left Lewiston on Friday
at one o'clock, got to this city at five. Sir I found this to be a very
handsome city. I like it better than any city I ever saw. It are not as large
as the city that you live in, but it is very large place much more so than I
expect to find it. I seen the gentleman that you given me letter to. I think
him much of a gentleman. I got into work on Monday. The man whom I am working
for is name Myers ; but I expect to go to work for another man by name of
Tinsly, who is a master workman in this city. He says that he will give me work
next week and everybody advises me to work for Mr. Tinsly as there more surity
in him.
Mr. Still, I have been looking and looking for my friends
for several days, but have not seen nor heard of them. I hope and trust in the
Lord Almighty that all things are well with them. My dear sir I could feel so
much better sattisfied if I could hear from my wife. Since I reached this city
I have telegraphed to friend Brown to send my thing to me, but I cannot hear a
word from no one at all. I have written to Mr. Brown two or three times since I
left the city. I trust that he has gotten my wife's letters, that is if she has
written. Please direct your letters to me, near the corner Sarah and Edward
street, until I give you further notice. You will tell friend B. how to direct
his letters, as I forgotten it when I writt to him, and ask him if he has heard
anything from Virginia. Please to let me hear from him without delay for my
very soul is trubled about my friends whom I expected to of seen here before
this hour. Whatever you do please to write. I shall look for you paper shortly.
Believe me sir to be
your well wisher.
JOHN H. HILL.
SOURCES: William Still, The Underground
Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters &c., p.
192-3
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