Flint
June 13, 1856
Dear John,
Your very welcome letter of April 19 only came to hand on 26
May, just five weeks after it was written.
I can assure you it gave me very great pleasure to hear from you after
so long a silence ____ the pleasure of which must now rests with me for you
wrote to me last and I have been remiss in not writing long ago.
I am glad to hear that yourself and family are in the
enjoyment of health and am grateful to say that we are the same in that
enjoyment of that irresistible blessing.
After so long a silence you will naturally expect as long a
letter > the news of a public character you will from time to time you will
have learned from the Albion, our local and private news I must send you what I
can.
There has been an alteration in our firm since I last
wrote. Mr. Joseph ___ has
withdrawn; we are going along on usual
jogging away but not making money like you Americans do. I should very much like to take a trip across
the Atlantic some summer for 3 or 4 months if fortune favors me before I get
too old to appreciate the pleasures of traveling. I certainly think I shall come over to see
the beauties of the country. I sometimes
in joke tell my wife I will sell up and go to America, buy land, and settle
down as a farmer but she would not go if she might have America for going she
says with Bryon “England with all thy faults I love they still”. I have often thought if my wife’s family
were all to go they would do well for they are all workers, both lads and
lasses. I am found of farming, it is
such a healty occupation; in fact it is the natural business of man.
Have you never the longing to see your own dear nation
home? I think at times you must feel a
desire for however beautiful the land of your adoption may be, it cannot
surpass the in beauty the hills and the valleys of hen Eymsus(?) but perhaps
you may never again tread your native soil .
You and I may never see each other on this side the grass, that will not
be of much consequence if we only meet in a happier place. I hope and trust we are journeying
_____________.
There has been great changes in the occupation of ______
here within the last two years. All
Mostyns estates about here have been on sale and most of them have changed
hands . I have bought the house I live
in , or rather the freehold or reversion of the lease. Rose cottage, you will remember it, have altered and improved it very much since
I bought it and now it is a comfortable little cot. I have also with the assistance of a friend
bought Lyddys near Bagillt; my mother in law is not living there. It is a capital farm. The late Mr. Roulkes Jones spent a deal of money improving it. I hope if I am spared and am fortunate I may
sometime have it entirely free, but how we do toil for worldly possessions and
how slow we are to secure our heavenly ones.
Mr. ___ Eyton died about three months ago and the collieries
here are standing in consequence. They
are going to be sold. I hope they will
go on again as it is a great injury to the neighborhood their ceasing to
work.
I suppose I gold you before that we had gas works in Flint
(it is so long since I wrote I may fall into the error of telling you things
twice over) of which I have the assignment.
I have gas in every room in my home now.
I cook with it as well. We hope
at some distant time to have water brought into the town, but the colliers
stopping will put a check to improvements.
Musparrate who has Roskells old smelting works is doing a
large business. They employ a very great
number of men indeed. Flint would be in
a bad condition now but for them. Oner
of the partners, Mr. Ricahrd Muspratt, has another large house in the square . They are a very nice family. It is through then that we have had gas
introduced . They have also established
a library and news room. It is called
the Flint ____ Institution.
I feel flattered by you
______________________________> I
hope he might be a better man than the one whose
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