Dedham, Mass
June 3rd, 1855
Dear John,
I once more take my pen in hand to write a few lines to you
and that in sorrow as I don’t doubt that you hear that James met with a severe
accident on the 28th as he was going to bed. He made a mess up when he got to the top of
the stairs and fell down and broke his arm in the same place as he did before. He has been down here ever since. Dr. Fog set his arm and now he is doing
well. We kept ___ it all the time he has
been down here and I hope he won’t be too long before he’ll be to work again.
I was up to south Dedham last Wednesday to see Price and
Everett, both of whom was very sorry of James because he does a great deal of
work for them now. Price was telling me
that he could take a common leg and finish it all through now. And he said that he (James) has got too far
ahead to stop now until he can do all the work they have up there, and then he
can go anywhere he is a mind to or maybe you will want him out in the
west.
Price has had an addition to his family last week when I was
up there. He is a boy. Price is going to write you soon and will
tell you all about James up there, how he is getting along. (I can write with my pens, they are all bad
ones. I have chaing [sic] it on this
page.)
I received a letter from home this week and they were all
well at that time. This is the first
letter I received from them since I sent them money and they received it all
right. Father said that trade was very
poor there at present and he expects to hear from you soon and wishes you all
success in this world and to world eternal, and all sends their kind respects
to you all that hopes you’ll do well at all times.
Father says in his letter that to say James from Pentre
Mills is coming here. He shipt from
Liverpool the same week that he wrote to me.
He is come to New York and from there, here. It is very dull times for him to come here now. We don’t have much of anything to do and they
talk of stopping the whole month of July as I am sorry to say, and if he comes
I shall do my best for him to get him work here or south Dedham. Mr.
Lambert thinks of starting for the west soon.
He is coming to Rockford and see what he can do there. Macbeth received a letter from you last
Friday and he said you spoke very encouraging to him. He is coming out as soon as he can. And this from your affectionate brother,
E. Benjamin
James sends his kind respects to you and Elizabeth and
accept the same from me all of you and Mr. & Mrs. Bird.
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