ST. CATHARINES, Sept.
4th.
DEAR SIR: — I now embrace this favorable opportunity of
writing you a few lines to inform you that I am quite well and arrived here
safe, and I hope that these few lines may find you and your family the same. I
hope you will intercede for my clothes and as soon as they come please to send
them to me, and if you have not time, get Dr. Lundy to look out for them, and
when they come be very careful in sending them. I wish you would copy off this
letter and give it to the Steward, and tell him to give it to Henry Lewy and
tell him to give it to my wife. Brother sends his love to you and all the
family and he is overjoyed at seeing me arrive safe, he can hardly contain
himself; also he wants to see his wife very much, and says when she comes he
hopes you will send her on as soon as possible. Jerry Williams’ love, together
with all of us. I had a message for Mr. Lundy, but I forgot it when I was
there. No more at present, but remain your ever grateful and sincere friend,
John Atkinson.
SOURCE: William Still, The Underground Railroad: A
Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters &c., p. 300
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