| | 1 | Author: | Douglass, William | Add | | | Title: | Liberian Letters: William Douglass to a Friend 1866 January 29  | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters | | | | Description: | I take this opportunity of writing these few lines trusting they may
find you well, and family, as I am quite
well, I have been very anxious of hearing from
you I has written you four letters during the
war and could hear nothing which made me very anxious to hear from
you, I could not tell whether you was dead or
alive. Please to let one hear from you as early as possible and also
let me your condition and your country's. I would like to come over
but and had proposed doing so,
but at this time I am very busy in sugar making & farming and
cannot well leave, Last year I made 8000 pounds
of sugar, and I expect to make a great deal more with the Small
machinery I have this year, I Sold last year's for $60 thousand. 1 I am also acting as agent for the Am. Col.
Society for this last emigra tion that
came from Lynchburg here
Dec. 14th 1865, which keeps me very busy
I therefore am oblige to give up the
idea of coming as I proposed this march, but the pastor of our Church
Albert Woodson is coming over in march and I expect him to call and
See you and all the friends in that district for me.
please answer this as Soon
as you can
to this as I may know all about you
and if you are alive and all respecting you as I am longing to hear a
word from an old friend as you. Also inform me something about my
Children I could hear nothing from them
neither during the war though I has often written them, but I chance
to hear mention of them in a letter to George
Walker from Mrs Reeves that two was dead
and one she never mention her name at all
Julia, which made me very unhappy. In
1861 when Dr. Hall was over
here last I gave him $20 — in gold and a receipt for the Same was inclosed to you in a letter. requesting you to draw it from him and give it to my
children but the war broke out before he could arrive to America and I
have heard nothing about it Since. I and family
is doing well here and are well, And I feel very proud that myself and
family may be an example for those that
may hereafter come to this country of Industry.
I must close for the present untill I hear
from
you, Make our love and regards
to your family and all inquiring friends | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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