New bedford, Nov. 3, 1859.
DEAR SIR: — i embrace this opertunity to inform you that i
received your letter with pleasure, i am enjoying good health and hope that
these few lines will find you enjoying the same blessing. i rejoise to hear from
you i feel very much indetted to you for not writing before but i have been so
bissy that is the cause, i rejoise to heare of the arrival of my wife, and hope
she is not sick from the roling of the sea and if she is not, pleas to send her
on here Monday with a six baral warlian and a rifall to gard her up to my
residance i thank you kindly for the good that you have don for me. Give my
respects to Mrs. Still, tell her i want to see her very bad and you also i
would come but i am afraid yet to venture, i received your letter the second,
but about the first of spring i hope to pay you a visit or next summer. i am
getting something to do every day. i will write on her arrivall and tell you
more. Mr. R. White sends his love to you and your famerly and says that he is
very much indetted to you for his not writing and all so he desires to know
wheather his cloths has arived yet or not, and if they are please to express
them on to him or if at preasant by Mrs. Donar. Not any more at preasent. i
remain your affectionate brother,
WILLIAM DONAR.
SOURCE: William Still, The Underground
Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters &c., p. 275
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