Name/Title
Business Letter to Selden Osborn from E.B. SawyerEntry/Object ID
2011.01.022Scope and Content
Business Letter to Selden Osborn from E.B. Sawyer
There are two letters written in regards to business dealings that Selden Osborn helped to resolve for E.B. Sawyer, Marion Twp., Dewitt, Illinois. One is on the front dated July 10/53 and the continuation is on the back dated July 21/53. The letters talk of the town they live in, Sons of Temperance coming into the area and farming/crops in addition to the financial settlement.
Notations on what would be the back of the first letter.
Metropolitan B.K. New York
Wicks, Otis & Brownwell
$235 sent August 15th 1853
No. 2340 Dated Augt. 6th 1853
Transcribed:
July 10/53
Marion Township Dewitt Post Office
Friend Osborn
Dear Sir
I received yours of the 23
of June informing me that you had settled
my affair with Harigan and Wiks and
I am glad you have got through with it
you have done as well or better than I expected
with them both I am satisfied with your
doing and give you my heart felt gratitude
for ending up the perplexing business you will
get the judgement asigned over to me or your
self if you get anything on the judgment
of Calknis or Crow you may keep 1/3 or 33 per
cent of what you can get may be you can get
shingles or lumber as you are nigher the
parties you might stand a better chance than I
can bring so for off and as you have conducted
all the businesses in your own name perhaps you
had better have it asigned to you you can
asign it to me any time here after if needs be
you can watch Crowl and Calkings as you may have
opportunity until next summer I will go to Ohio
I think and if you cannot get anything out of
them if I come I will see what I can do if
you have the judgement they cannot Plead I
ought to pay any part of it about the money
You may get a draft on new york and send to me
you can go to Otis & Brownell the Brockers
in Cleveland and tell them what you want
and where you want to send the money and they
will tell you how to do it I am well acquainted
with them and have ful confidence in them they will
put you on the right way of doing it. You mistook
The Directions I gave you for sending your letters the
Post office is Dewitt
Dewitt County Ill
July 21/53
Sir you will perceive I have
laid aside this letter for a week or more
but will now resume it we are tolerable
well Mrs. Sawyer does not enjoy very good
health. The weather is very dry here corn
will be a short crop unless it rains soon
grain cattle sheep & hogs are very high here
it is good time for farmers land is high here
fruit will be quite plenty potatoes are
all drying up we need rain badly wheat
was first note here this season and very heavy
crops. We are dying tolerable well with ons
we are short of water and can not work all
the time the little vilage we live in is a very
pleasant place with good religious inhabitants
We have intirely banished Ring alkihall[alcohol?]
and all of his imps from the place and are
Determined to keep the Main Liquer Law
inforce here we have a flourishing
Division of the Sons of Temperance and we are
determined to keep the cause a way from the
place: We received a letter from Julia Allen[?]
a few days ago Dea Cooley has gone and also
some other of our friends when you write me
again me the news of the town and write soon
About send the money you can get a draft
on New York and I can get it cashed here of some
of the Merchants Brownell Otis & co Brokers at
Cleveland Direct your letters to Dewitt
or to Marion Dewitt P. Office (Dewitt Ill)
Dewitt County Ill I believe I have
got all your letters it take a letter some
time to come as our mail is only weekly here
I would like you would send the money soon
as I have made calculations for using of it soon
Money is worth considerable here as
much as 15 or 20 percent you know the little
Sorrel mare I took here, I swap her for a
Mare and colt paid five dollars to boot sale
The mare and the colt for $100 cash or on my property
Here: I was to cash for I have no more time
Write this morning our Love to all
Your Most Truly
E B Sawyer
To Selden Osborn
North Dover
OhioCollection
Osborn Family CollectionRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Osborn, SeldenPerson or Organization
Sawyer, E.B.Person or Organization
Sawyer, Mrs. E.B.
