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1857-02-12 Page 1
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Elkton Washington Co Ills Feb '12 1857 Dear Cousin I take this opportunity of addressing you a few lines and if it savors too much of a business letter I hope you will excuse it. I am teaching school in Elkton at present my school will be out in two weeks after this and then I will be free and you may depend that it is withe the greatest pleasure to me that ever I enjoyed at the closeing of a term. It is a most miserable school. Last summer I was engaged in the book business and expect to follow the same business and had a notion to come up into your State provided things would work wright and therefore I wish to make a few inquirys of you. Were Crops good in your & the adjoining Counties last summer and is there plenty of feed on hands? Is there any particular pressure in money matters among the people generally? and lastly do you think I could sell many books? I was acting as agent for Howe's works the "Travels and adventures of Celebrated Travelers" & "Life and Death in the Ocean" He is the same Author that published the Great West a few years ago
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Elkton Washington Co Ills Feb '12 1857 Dear Cousin I take this opportunity of addressing you a few lines and if it savors too much of a business letter I hope you will excuse it. I am teaching school in Elkton at present my school will be out in two weeks after this and then I will be free and you may depend that it is withe the greatest pleasure to me that ever I enjoyed at the closeing of a term. It is a most miserable school. Last summer I was engaged in the book business and expect to follow the same business and had a notion to come up into your State provided things would work wright and therefore I wish to make a few inquirys of you. Were Crops good in your & the adjoining Counties last summer and is there plenty of feed on hands? Is there any particular pressure in money matters among the people generally? and lastly do you think I could sell many books? I was acting as agent for Howe's works the "Travels and adventures of Celebrated Travelers" & "Life and Death in the Ocean" He is the same Author that published the Great West a few years ago
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