Pocahontas Aug 11^th 1852

 

Dear Bro.

                        I arrived home in safety on the 14^th nst. but strange as it may appear I have not found a convenient opportunity until the present of writing to you When within 75 miles of home my ears were saluted with the sad and unwelcomed intelligence of the death of / a dear, and only brother while on his way to California. He was swept off by that dreadful disease Cholera. His family have returned and are liveing at our house. Little Emory had been very sick, so much so that for a few days, he was hardly expected to live, but is better now The remainder of the folks I fund well. I paid Mother Ferguson a visit a few days since. She listened very attentively to my story, especially to that which concerned her children, made many inquiries about them, wanted to know if they were “good children” of course I told her they were a nice sett of boys & girls.

 

            Having been delayed at Cleaveland about 20 hours, the same at Cincinnati, and 36 hours at Madison I did not reach home until Wednesday morning. Say to Delia that circumstances, over which I had no controll, put it out of my power to have those pictures (of which we were speaking) taken, I had the arrangements made to have them taken in Cincinnati but was prevented as before stated.

 

Aug 12^th The most buisy time of my life, has been since I returned home, and even now did not I I feel it to be my imperative duty to write I would be led to the conclusion that I did not have neither could I take to write, so you will know how to excuse. When a more convenient favorable opportunity presents itself I’ll try to write you a full letter giving particulars in full.

 

Please accept from your unworthy brother his unfeined heartfelt thanks for your generous hospitality during his stay at your pleasant home, in the beautiful little village of Franklin. Hoping we may at no distant day have the unspeakable pleasure of, in some degree, returning the compliment, we subscribe ourselves as heretofore

 

                                                                        Your Obliged friend

                                                                                    and Ob^t Serv^t

                                                                        Williamson Plant

Re William F. Day

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