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Letter written by Oliver Smith from Hancock Co. IN, April 12th, 1857 apparently
to Philander Smith. (Jr.?) While I don't have the envelope, from another
letter it appears that it was Oliver Smith's custom to put the recipient's
name (in this case, Philander) also at the bottom of his letters.
April the 12th/'57
Dear Brother,
We are all well as common. Hoping these few Lines may find your Health's
good and your blistered hands healed up and cured over to. I told Father
what you told me about that money. I think it is ready for you if he knew
how to git it to you. I sold that mare that I got of Father Last fall when
you was here for 125 Dollars this Spring.
I think from the name you fellers gives Iowa it would not suit me. But
I could make a Living here and a good one two if I was a mind to come for
Cale says that I would Skin the Pewter off of a Dead niggers eye for the
Sake of a Dime. Tell Cale to come back here for I would like to trade with
him once and a while Though I expect he has got mad at me about writing.
But I wrote nothing worse than he did and he commenced it himself. Though
I have not Bene out of humor yet I take things easy. Tell Lean that old
Hancock is rite, a feller lives on what he wants to eat Here and he has
to eat what he wants to live on There so that is even.
Yours truly, Write soon in a minute,
Oliver Smith