Name/Title
Letter from R. Stevens to Henry AldrichEntry/Object ID
2000.FIC.072Scope and Content
Two page letter from R. Stevens to Henry Aldrich regarding payment of a debt to Henry, the slow mail from his town, and farm and health news from the area. He also complains about the poor winter conditions. He comments on the election of Lincoln, and upcoming plans for next year's planting, and the state of the Society and other religious denominations and the good morality of the town.
Wilkesville March 6th 1861
Brother Henry Sir
I received your letter
last saturday with its contents for which
I am very thankful I should have written
immediately upon the receipt of it but
the mail does not leave Wilkesville only
once a week and that friday morning and
comes in friday night so you see that I
answer you by the first mail your letter
contained $26 which is a little more than
was due me from Mr Bates but we can
make it right when I see you whitch I
think will be next fall I shall not attempt
to write mutch this evening for I have been
ploughing hard to day and am somewhat tired
myself and Family are enjoying comfortable
health at present except Finell she was taken
with the lung fever the 2nd of February was confined
to her bed 10 days has recovered so as to be about
the house is still very weak and troubled
with cough the Doctor visited her 7 times
there has been several casees of that complaint
in this vicinity but none have proved
fatal that I know of we have had rather
an unpleasant winter no sleighing and
plenty of mud and such nasty yaller mud
I never saw but it has assuageed and
is quite pleasant now in consequence
of the political excitement business has been
perfectly dead here the past winter but
Lincoln has got to Washington and we
expect there will be a change either for
better or worse we hope not worse for
its was en cats now Constitution Rin
PG. 2
Maryann how do your pigs get along
I bought three pigs last fall and have killed
two of them and the other one is a dam good
barrow I shall keep it a spell I calculate
to plant 7 or 8 acres of corn and sow 4 or 5
acres of oats we have not settled here only
for one year what we shall do then is for
the future to determine the society is very
good in this neighbourhood as far as morality
is concerned we attend meeting at Wilkesville
there is a Presbyterian and Methodist
Church there preaching jenerally at each
house every alternate Sabbath but as I
said before I could not write much I shall
be under necessity of drawing to a close tell
Mother I was very glad to receive a letter
from her I will answer it as soon as I can
think what to write I should write more
frequently than I do but you get letters from
here often so that it is not necessary for
me to write mutch I should like very mutch
to be there and attend your lyceums but
as it is not convenient for me to do so I
will try to be content otherways
tell our Folks I should be glad to hear
from all of them give my respects to all
enquiring Friends and neighbours write
soon and be very particular
R. Stevens
H. AldrichCollection
Aldrich Family CollectionRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Aldrich, Henry WinsorPerson or Organization
Bates, Mr.Person or Organization
Finett, Mrs.Person or Organization
Stevens, R.
