Flint, August 31, 1863
Dear John,
Your letter of 15 June enclosed in one from Thomas PriceI
duly received and very glad I was to hear from you.
My wife took the likeness down to Bagillt and your parents
were quit overjoyed, your poor mother burst into tears.
The only letter I have had from you in a very long time was
one you sent to Thomas Price. It was
written in pencil just at the beginning of the Indian outbreak. I had none other. I sent it to Bagillt, if as you say you have
written 4 or 5 times, the letters must have gone astray.
We are all very sorry indeed to hear of your misfortune and
hope your troubles are over before now.
You must have had a time of great anxiety.
I am intending to enclose this in T. Price’s letter in hopes
that you will receive it. He tells me
that he sends you occasionally some of the papers that I send him. You will glean from them the news of the country,
and if he sends you the Flintshire Observer you will have the news of this
locality.
I regret to say that business with us is not at all good nor
has it been for upwards of two years. The
war in your unhappy country is affecting our trade very much. What a blessing it would be to the world if
it was at and end. May God in his mercy
put a stop to it.
I have nothing particular to write about that will interest
you. Most of your old shop mates are still in our employ. Joss keeps the public house at Pentre opposite
the mill. He is now laid up with
rheumatic gout. Robert Williams woks
with us and keeps a shop in the village.
Tommy Hughes is much the same as
usual, but getting old. Mr. Gardner is
enjoying pretty good health but begins to totter on his legs. He is not far from 80 years of age. We are all fast hastening to eternity. May we all meet in heaven.
I suppose you and I will never see each other on this side the grave.
Your father & mother would be glad indeed to see you once more , but
they never, most likely. We must struggle
on and in a few short years or perhaps months we shall have done with this
world forever. May we live constantly
endeavoring to enter in at the strait gate.
I hope this will find you and yours in enjoyment of
health. With our united regards to every
member of your family and with our best wishes for your temporal and eternal
happiness.
Remain, Dr. John, yours ever,
Thomas Gleave
I shall
be very glad to hear from you again at the earliest opportunity.
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