Chicago
March 4th, 1866
Dear Uncle,
I received your letter dated Feb. 18 and was glad to hear
that you all enjoy good health as I am glad to say that I am very well at
present.
You wished to know what I was doing. Well, I am to work in a box factory and planing
mill. I file most of their saws and do
most of all their matching and halfing for boxes, but I have only worked a
eight hours per day lately but I am going to commence working ten hours tomorrow. You wished me to write to you and tell you how
Uncle Edwin is getting along. We hear
from him often and he says that he is well in heath and is doing well that is
in the line of business.
I received a letter from home last week and was glad to hear
that they are all pretty well in health but they say that the time is pretty dull
there now. I had a letter from sister Mary
Ellen and one from Sarah and they said that grandfather and grandmother are not
very well, but they do not say anything about Uncle James, whether he ever
writes to them or not, but I suppose he don’t.
But they wrote once that he had come to New York to take charge of a saw
mill and turning shop; £20 per month in gold, but I have not heard anything
about him since.
I have no news to tell you so I must conclude for the present
with best respects to you all. I am
going to write home today.
This from yours,
Richard B. Jones
Dear Sister,
As Richard was writing to John I will try to write a few
lines to you. We are all fine as usual. I keep Hattie at home from school since her
Papa has gone away and she learns at home, for you must know that I am very
lonesome in his absence and his welfare causes me a great deal of trouble, although
I always wish to be where he is. I
cannot say that I really wish to go there but I suppose that I shall have to go
either this spring or next fall. I
should like very much to see you all before we go away from here. I can assure you that I have anything else
but leisure now, for I have Richard, the two children, and a gentleman and his
wife boarding with me and it keeps me pretty busy. It is very pleasant here now. The streets are all dry and it looks like
summer. You will meet wagon loads of
flowers in the streets and the windows are full of them. There is lettuce, radishes, pie plant and other
green stuff in the market by the bushel.
I must close hoping to hear from you soon.
From your affectionate sister,
F.W. Benjamin
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