| | 1 | Author: | Douglass, William | Add | | | Title: | Liberian Letters: William Douglass to Dr. James H. Minor 1857
August 19  | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters | | | | Description: | I am pleased to acknowledge the recipt of you
letter by the ship
M. C. Stevens
which arrived July last; and I learn that she has completed her
voyage on this coast and now is lying in the port of Monrovia on her re turn trip home.
And I am certain you will be pleased to hear from us, as no doubt you are
anscious to know how we are —
where we are — and how we are getting along. 1st We are all doing tolerable Well
in health for there have been only a part of us sick with the fever;
as for myself, I hav never had cause to lie down a day since here I have been, neither
hav any of my family been sick — those who
hav been sick did not suffer as much as was
antis cipated and some of them caused
their sickness by inadvertence in living & otherwise. Dr We are all at Careysburg with the escception of Robinson Scott's family who are still at Clay Ashland, & who I am sorry to say are
much reduced — yet, I rather escpect
the old lady will come here; but her son desires to buy land there with a
small tenement on it at a cost of $100.00. How success
ful he will be, I cannot tell. We have built mine log cabbins, and I am
pleased to say that in our sisc months were up we
were in them and pretty comfortably situated. All of us have our lots
pretty well planted down in potatoes, cassada,
eddoes, tomatoes, lima beans, some coffee trees set out & other
little articles which will do service in our families. Our boys I am happy
to say have up to this time conducted themselves pretty honorably
& I hope their present good character will be their index
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