Memphis, Tennessee
Jan. 23, 1866
Dear John,
I received your letter yesterday and am happy to hear that you
was all well as I am happy to say that I am quite well at present.
I suppose that you will be surprised to learn of my being down
here in Dixie Land. Well, I am going out
to a mill (that I sent ___ Corke have bought out down here) tomorrow morning. It is on the Hatchie River about ten miles
from Memphis, and now I have finally got into business for myself at last, and
I think that it will be a success. We
are going to make lumber and shingles all together. There is a very large profit in at present, which
I will write to you again and explain the whole thing to you.
I am sorry that I could not comply with your request, it had
had your letter before I left Chicago I would have done so just as well as
not. But now I am using all the means I
have got to get this mill started, and my family is at Chicago and it makes it
cost me about three times that it would if I had them here with me, but I don’t
think that I will send for them until
after the warm weather next summer.
In haste, yours truly,
Edwin
Address care of:
Capt. S. W. Pease
Lock Box 112, Memphis, Tenn
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