Tabor, Fremont Co.,
Iowa,
27, Aug., 1857.
My Dear Friend:
Your most welcome letter of the I4th inst., from Salt Forkes, is
received. I cannot express the gratitude I feel to all the kind friends who
contributed towards paying for the place at North Elba after I had bought it,
as I am thereby relieved from a very great embarrassment, both with Mr. Smith
and the young Thompsons; and also comforted with the feeling that my
whole-hearted wife and daughters will not be driven either to beg, or become a
burden to my poor Boys, who have nothing but their hands to begin life with. I
am under special obligations to you for going to look after them, and cheer
them in their homely condition. May God reward you all a thousandfold.
Very respectfully
your friend,
N. H. (JOHN Brown).
SOURCE: Frank Preston Stearns, The Life and Public Services of
George Luther Stearns, p. 137
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