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1Author:  Douglass, WilliamAdd
 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 through life with farther improvement for use fulness.
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