Cromwell Sept 24^th, 67

 

My dear son George

              Yours of the 21^st was received this evening.

 

            I was very glad to receive it, but sorry that you feel & look so blue. It is, indeed a trying time with you; but I trust you will emerge from it "all right", and that your experience, though for the present very bitter, will be beneficial to you in after life: and I hope you will be wiser & a better man for the trials of the past year. I want you should write truthfully just as you feel; however sombre it may be. I feel bad to have you depressed & sad: but I want to know how you are & how you feel all the time / There is much that is not calculated to inspire us with very buoyant emotions; but we must not yield to discouragement and despondency. We must think of the good things, the blessings we have as well as the trials. Be thankful for the comfortable health that you have, & that we all have. Be thankful that you have parents to love you & to sympathize with you in all your trials: a brother, who is deeply interested in your welfare: and more than all (to you) that you have a friend, with whom you are expecting a lifelong happiness. I trust you will yet realize a bright future, with her whom you love; that you will have a large share of conjugal felicity; and that you will have no occasion to defer your marriage beyond the 23^rd of Dec. 

 

It is very trying to be alone in such trying circumstances; and I hope Loomis is with you ere this: but if he is not, you must make the best of it, and hope for better times. I suppose Loomis has some partial business connections in Newark, but I dont know precisely what. If you can get out of the S.O.A. business, I hope you will both be engaged in something that will subserve a good purpose, to yourselves and others.

 

            You speak of having been served with threats from three parties: what was the occasion the S.O.A. business, or your private affairs? I have very little fear for you or L. while you try to do right: & that, I trust you will endeavor to do. How do you get along about your shirts, board &c. I think about you almost all the time & wish I could see / you and help you. You are not likely to get any of our fresh vegetables, that Loomis & his wife have enjoyed so much: but next year, if we live, I hope you and Susie will have your share.

 

            We have had quite cold weather for a few days, but have had no frost, to do any damage. We still have corn & beans, tomatoes, cucumbers & summer squashes. We sent a bushel of ripe tomatoes to Middletown today.

 

            Emily Russell was married yesterday to a Mr Perry, whom she found out west. left in the six o'clock train for her western home. I must close for want of room, & strength. Mrs Hutchinson made me a call in the forepart of the evening, so that I did not get to writing till between 8 and 9. Your Father is husking corn upstairs. he is not very well, has had a diarrhea for a long time Give our love to Susie & Loomis if he is with you. write soon your loving Mother

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