South Dedham, Mass
Sept. 7, 1868
Dear John,
I have received yours of 5th April last and 2 or
3 letters before that, which I am very sorry to say that I have not answered. I ask your pardon for this apparent neglect.
Now I need to tell you how I have been situated of
late. I have been working still at
Chickering & ___. I leave South
Dedham every morning in the 10 minutes before 6 o’clock train and I don’t
arrive home until a quarter before 8 o’clock in the evening. Such long days’ work make one unfit for
anything but to lay down and sleep to get ready to rise the next morning at
half past 4 o’clock possibly. This kind
of work so closely as I have done has made me to put off writing to any friends
from time to time, and many months have passed away.
I received a letter from Mr.
Gleave in February last. I answered it
today. They were all well at that
time. He stated in his letter that he is
asked a great deal that he was better. I made part of his time at home he was
at ___ ___ where he ___. He had then
been absent from home about eleven days.
I stated in the letter that I wrote to him today that your little boy
Frank had been sick, but that he was better at the time that you wrote to me,
and that you were enquiring about him (Mr. Gleave), and that you would like to
hear from some of your old friends. We
are all very sorry to hear that your little son Rob has been sick. We hope that he is now quite well, and we
hope that you are all well.
We have had a very trying time in
our family since last spring. Our
youngest daughter ____ was taken sick in February last and she has been very
sick and low and all, but thanks to the Almighty she is very much better
now. Dr. Burgess of Dedham attended her. Our grief and our anxiety has been greater
than we can ever tell anyone.
I am very sorry to hear about
your father & house being burned down.
It is a great loss for him. It is
luck that he is in the midst of his relatives and friends. And I
am very glad to hear that Edwin is doing well in Chicago. I am glad you are pleased with the little
papers for the children. The Flintshire
Observer is sent to you. Sometimes it is
my wife and children that sends them to you.
They talk a great deal about you.
We shall be very glad to hear from you soon. My family unites with me in kind love to you
and to Mrs. Benjamin and your dear children.
From yours most respectfully,
Thomas G. Price
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