South Dedham
May 19, 1863
Dear John,
I have received your kind letter of April 20 and two or
three letters before, and also several newspapers, some of which I have sent to
Flint. I ask your pardon for not being punctual in answering
your letters. I assure you it is not
from want of respect to you and your family.
My health has been far from being good for a long time, but I am able to
hold on to my work, but it is a hard task to me sometimes and there is so much irritation
and excitement, ill feeling and bitterness in all parties here such as I have
never seen before. It is hard to keep
clear out of it, but our trouble is nothing to what you and your family have
passed through. We sympathize deeply with
you in the greatest of your trials, the death of your son. We know what that trial is for we have passed through
the same ourselves. The Lord gave and
the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the
name of the Lord.
I am sorry to say that I have not answered the letter which
I received from Mr. Gleave yet and I am very uneasy about it. I will send the likeness of your children
with the greatest pleasure and I will wait for them before I will write to Mr.
Gleave, and will you please to send them to me as soon as possible to be
forwarded in the letter.
Macbeth has been working in ___ Bridgewater at Howard &
Clarke’s, I believe, but I am not very sure, that is as near as I can say. I was speaking to Frank Baker of Dedham shortly
before I received your letter and I believe he told me that Macbeth was there. F. Baker wrote to you and he has heard you had
received his letter and he told me to say, when I was writing to you, that he should
be very happy to receive a letter from you.
I have heard that Russell & Baker have dissolved partnership. Mr. Baker and a curver that worked for them
is carrying on some little business and had a furniture wareroom besides, but
don’t manufacture. Holy Morse Boyden
keep on as usual; they employ one turner, Deacon Hall. I am
now with the Everetts. They are doing
the most business, but how long it will last we cannot tell. The lumber they are working now did not cost
them much. They were stocked at the time
of their failing but it is difficult to say what they will do when the cheap
stock is gone. Business is generally
much better than it has been. Our two
little ones have had the measles lately but they are now getting better.
My family unites with me in kind regards to you and your
wife & children, hoping that you are all well and that we shall soon hear
from you again. I am glad you have some
countrymen with you. It must be pleasant
to meet them so far away from home.
Please excuse my short letter as I am very sick. I will
endeavor to be more punctual in writing in the future.
I remain most truly yours,
Thomas
G. Price
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