South Dedham, Mass
Feb. 3, 1866
Dear John,
I have received your kind letter of Dec. 3rd. We are very happy to hear that you and your
family are enjoying good health and we are glad to hear that your children are
growing up to be such a help to you on your farm.
I have made enquiries again about Mr. Wait and I am told he
is somewhere in New York but I cannot find out where. I have heard but I do not know if it is true
that his father left him money and that he goes around spending it.
I have written to Mr. Gleave. Have said to him that when I heard from you
last, you and your family were quite well and that you had not heard from Flint
for a long time. About a fortnight ago I
received a letter from Isaiah Jones; he is in Leavenworth, Kansas. He sent me his business card. He is in company with another and carrying on
the cabinet business. He has a steam
mill.
We shall send you some papers again soon. We are getting on here about as usual. Business is not quite as good as it was a
little time ago. The Everetts are
carrying on their business at Morse & Webb’s old shop. I don’t hear much boasting, I guess they are
not doing too well. The talk is the
Everetts will leave South Dedham altogether before long. The have bought a steam mill in South Boston
and they are carrying on some business there at present. They have sold the land that their old factory
was built upon to the railway co.
We have heard that Mrs. McLeod has been a spiritualist and
that she is now in some insane hospital.
She has been living somewhere in Boston for a long time.
I saw Robert Pike not long ago from Fitchburg. He was enquiring about you. I told him you was doing much in Minnesota. He was very glad to hear it. John Birch went to the war and died somewhere
in Tennessee. Mr. Nelson White talked
about going to Minnesota again to farm for a living.
Myself and family are in good health at present and I am
still at Chickerings. We are often
speaking about you all and we shall be very happy to hear from you again
soon. We all unite in kind love to you and
Mrs. Benjamin and your dear children.
From yours, most truly,
Thomas G. Price
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