| | 1 | Author: | Barrett, Richard | Add | | | Title: | Liberian Letters: Richard Barrett to Elizabeth Lewis 1858 January
28  | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters | | | | Description: | I now write in answer to your two letters I received this year, I was glad
to hear from you and all the freinds in that
part of the
Country. I and children are well, and may this
find you and all well and enjoying the bless
ings of kind heaven. I now tells you some thing about Careysburg. This is a fine place and fine country indeed, the
custom of the natives is very good they are docile and friend ly people, I have not seen one hostile one as yet.
Those persons that came out with us, most all living except those you have heard death. If
you pleased to send me 1 Keg of nails, 1
Barrel of Pork, and children
shoes and pair for myself, and two axes, pantaloons stuff 1 piece, 1
piece Calico, 1 grumbling
1 hoes and some of the cheapest of Cloths which is dif ferent kinds of Calico piece of each, 1 Box of soap and two
Bridle Blabes and 1 sett of knives and forks and half dozen of water pails. We
have meetings every Sunday and the
Baptist Association have appointed a young man from
Grand Bassa
Country by the name of F. Roberts to teach us all little and
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