Quincy, Mass.
April 18, 1881
Dear John,
We were most happy to receive your kind letter, and
especially were we pleased to receive your photograph. It is a very good one indeed. Although you have changed somewhat since we saw
you last, you still look very much as you did formerly. I should readily have known you had it been
my good fortune to have met you anywhere.
We trust we shall soon have the pleasure of receiving the photographs of
your dear wife and children for we wish very much to have them.
I have been thinking very much of late of the time when you
and I came to this country. It will be
32 years the 22nd of this month.
How time flies!! I don’t think
that either you or I have any reason to regret that we came to America for it
has proved a good thing both for ourselves and our children. We have changed somewhat since that time for
we were then strong active young men.
We are very glad to learn that you have such bright
intelligent girls – and boys too, for that matter. They are a blessing to you and I doubt not you
are justly proud of them.
As Olive wished you to ask me the prices of pianos, I send
you a price list of Mr. Chickering’s instruments, which are undeniably the
best. The prices written in ink are the real
ones from which a discount of 10% is made for cash.
I wish to thank you kindly for the papers you have sent
me. I have taken much pleasure in
reading them. I am glad to hear of the
remarkable growth of some of your western towns. Minneapolis has done remarkably well. Your property must appreciate in value
considerably during the next decade. I
am sure you cannot do better than we wish you, for we wish you and yours every
prosperity and success.
I suppose you will soon be quite busy sowing. I should think the farms in the west must look
very fine during the growing season.
I am happy to say that I am gradually improving in health. My wife and Willie are still quite well. Willie has written this letter for me for I
wished to answer your letter without much delay. We trust you will soon have fully recovered
from the effects or your late sickness. We
trust the rest of you are quite well.
With our love to you all and hoping to hear from you again
soon, I remain as ever,
Your sincere friend,
Thomas G. Price
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