South Dedham
Nov. 4th, 1861
Dear John,
I received your answer to my letter and I sent it enclosed
in my letter to Mr. Gleave that they may see that you were in the land of the
living , and read your own statement in your own handwriting , for he stated that
they were very uneasy about you. And
now I receive a letter from Mr. Gleave with a letter enclosed for you from your
parents. They state they have wrote to
you several times but received no answer and, fearing this should share the
same fate, it was sent to me to forward to you.
Mr. Gleave says your letter caused great joy there, like the father in the
parable, he was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found.
Now I do hope this letter will reach you because of your
father’s letter, and I shall anxiously be expecting to hear from you
again. I should like to hear from you
before I answer Mr. Gleave’s letter. I should
be glad to tell him that your father’s letter has reached its destination.
I am very sorry I have been so long without writing to you
but I assure you we have spent a miserable summer here. The Everett’s liabilities were three hundred
and eighty thousand dollars. They have
settled by paying fifteen percent. We
have had very little to do all the summer.
The mill has been stopped nearly all the time, the commencement running
about three weeks ago and shall shut down again in about 2 weeks, more if
George Everett does not get orders in Cuba to which place he is now on his
way.
We have had plenty of military excitement. They have raised one military in Dedham. John Andrews that worked at Russele &
Bakers is gone, Garrison, a Dutchman from Dorchester, that fellow that worked upstairs in the same
room with that old wood scratcher, Sawyer. I don’t
know of anyone else that you know. South
Dedham is remarkably clean of loafers now. There is a military camp near Readville, two regiments
there now; one of them are cavalry.
Are you able to keep cool in the far west? Working days are like Sundays here now. William French that you enquired about last
time, I saw him, it was about the middle of the summer. He told me he had been to Canada and had
bought himself a farm. I think he said
60 acres of land and he was going to take his family with him back. I have
tried all I could to get his address but there is no one in South Dedham that
knows his address. I saw a letter in
the post office addressed to him and has
been there some time. It had the
Hutchinson post mark on it. I thought it
was from his father but I did not know what to do with it, but one day about three
weeks ago I saw Nat Wishington from Dorchester.
I enquired if he could tell me where Mr. French was, he could not but
said his father in law, Mr. McGee, lived about a mile from him. I told him about the letter and he called at
the post office and got the letter to give to his father in law to forward it
to Mr. French.
We are all in good health and unite in kind regards to you
and your family and hope you are all well, and expect to hear again from you
soon.
From yours as ever,
Thomas G. Price
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