Saint Paul, Minnesota
July 5, 1857
My Dear Elizabeth,
You will most likely be looking for a line from me sometime
this week as I am detained here until tomorrow __ __ at 10 o’clock. I embrace the opportunity to drop a line to
you hoping that it will find you and the children all quite well. I have had a most ___ passage this far. Arrived here at 1 o’clock today. As to giving you any description of the
country I have passed through, I shall reserve until I get to my journey’s end,
which I expect to reach about Friday ___ if nothing happens. I expect to right through from Henderson to
Hutchinson with a man that is going there with a team from Henderson & whom
I have met here on board of the boat. He
has lived there for three months back. He
likes there very much. He came down here
for something and is going up tomorrow on this boat.
Tell Edwin that I did not go to Harvard for there was not
certainty of my finding Judge Agers at home so Hawk thought I had better not go
there. I have been trying to hunt up Mr. Webb of
south Dedham who Ballard told me was here in the furniture business. I have not found him. They (the other furniture dealers) tell me he
is not here so I give it up. This town
is built upon a rock about 70 ft. above the river & has the appearance of
being a very thriving town.
Give my love to the children, Mr. Robert & Edwin &
his wife.
Affectionately yours,
John
in haste
On board steamer leaving Miss River, St Paul
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