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1Author:  Scott, DavidAdd
 Title:  Liberian Letters: David Scott to Dr. James H. Minor 1858 January 28  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I am well and I hope this may find you and family in the finest of health as it leaves me. I Should have written you but time and chance did not admit. I now must tele you something about Liberia, this will be a find country in time to come all we want is in dustrious men and religious persons to carry out the object that is design for Liberia. I am now building a small house on my lot which I hope will be done in short. I think many of the friends have written almost everything to you which will interest you, so I will not pick up many things as they did. Brother Thomas Scott is dead and I hope he is gone to heaven. Brother Willi am Douglass and family is well and doing well as it can be expected for we, new persons for this country. Mr. S. Carr have build a small house for himself and family. Mr. Hugh Walker Sr. have also build and is living in it. If you pleased to be so kind as to send me, 1 box of leaf tobacco 1 piece of bleached cotton, 1 piece of pantaloons stuff and two pair of shoes, one pair of coarse and pair fine no. ll's: half barrel pork and one piece of Caleco. I should written long and more of the news about Liberia but time is very short and precious, as I hear the ship will leave Saturday so you see I cannot say much at this time. My regards to yourself and family and es pecially to little Tommy and all the enquiring friends. All my love to Roda, Caroline, and El ly , to Ann Rachel and I very often think about her. And all my, to Mr. H. Lewis I should like to see him very much but I think about two years from now I shall try todoso if I should be spared by the assistant of God Almighty. I am very glad to hear that you had the very fine wheat crop on the mountain that I sowed for you before I left home, I have killed killed 5 deers since I have been on the mountain one day before I wrote.
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