HAVANA, Sept. 29, 1856.
MR. WM. STILL — Dear Sir: — I enclose herewith a draft on
New York, payable to your order, for $100, to be paid on the delivery at
Philadelphia of Daniel Robertson’s wife.
You can readily see that it has been necessary for Daniel to
work almost night and day to have laid up so large an amount of money, since
the first of April, as this one hundred dollars. Daniel is industrious and
prudent, and saves all of his earnings, above his most absolute wants. If the
Captain is not successful in getting Daniel's wife, you, of course, will return
the draft, without charge, as you said. I hope success will attend him, for
Daniel deserves to be rewarded, if ever man did.
Yours, &c.
N. CORYELL.
SOURCE: William Still, The Underground Railroad: A
Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters &c., p. 331
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