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I am now several letters in your debt owing in part
to my having twice written to Dr. Harrison. I have not yet
heard whether the small pox has spread since it appeared in
Charlottesville, but as a late letter from Maria does not mention
it, I presume that the alarm it first created has passed
away. We never hoar from Maria or Mary, and your mother has
always wished to know who the letter was from, which Mr. Smith
said he had for her with a parcel, and which she hoped to get
on his return from New York, when to our great disappointment
he passed through this place so unceremoniously without letting
us see him. Her old malady seems to be quite subdued, but a
cold which she got by imprudent exposure confined her for a
week to her room, & for the first time she has ventured downstairs
today. Her cough is still troublesome at night. I wrote
Mr. Rives more than a fortnight since, informing him that I had
not been able to get any timothy seed within his limits, and
ten days afterwards he had not received my letter. I cannot
account for it—and lest my last letter should also miscarry
you had better mention it again—as I fear the delay will be
a source of vexation & disappointment to him. The rest of my
letter is for the Doctor.
A letter from Chicago today informs me that $2,000
was offered for one of our lots in Carpenter addition in 4 payments
with interest—but as Ogden Jones & I thought it would
bring more 6 months hence I declined the offer. Indeed I doubt
whether when property is manifestly so increasing in value, it
would be advisable now to sell one of those—but one or two
in Tucker's addition I should have no objection to sell. The
President of the Rock Island R.R. informs me that the stock
carries 10 per cent interest, convertible into scrip, until the
road is received from the contractors, which he expects will be
on the 10th of July next—but the scrip itself carries no int-
erest—as I had been wrongly informed. A. C. Flagg, the Treasurer
of the company will give the necessary information about
the steps to be taken to convert the scrip into stock, & to get
more scrip if required. He lives in New York. But nothing need
be done until July. The road was expected to be completed to the
Mississippi by the 25th of this month. In the report to the
syockholders the Directors do not seem to promise more than 10
per cent dividends the first year. I yet hope they will exceed
that, but though they do not they will certainly increase afterwards.
I send you a newspaper by which you will see more of the
brilliant prospects of that wonderful town.
Mrs. T. sends you & the children including Mary Maria
Messrs. Broaddus & Smith her love in which I join &
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