Dear brother
June the 21 1849
Dear brother
I now take my pen in hand to inform you that I am well as to health [G]osey and his family is all well I am going to board at [G]oseys and work on my land two months and then I am going to Flordia Alfred is going to school to Mr Hornida he boards with Hornida Mr Loch wrote to you and sent the letter to Fort Michael Lewis [---- ---] run-away and come back and if you don鈥檛 mind you will loose your money I have nothing to write to you but you write to me There is a gradeal of more pleasure in a maried life than in a single life but I don鈥檛 think you have tried it long enough to know a bout it I wold like to see you how you look with with a wife The small pock is ragen about Hawkins ville I want you to tell Pollyan if she is not mad I am fore eye don鈥檛 forget any thing in a week
[Transcribed by Stacy Bryant, June 2005]
[Edited by Tina Bernath, June 2006]
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