[Letter: date unknown]

[Letter: date unknown]

[unknown]

African American abolitionists

African American families

New Bedford (Mass.)

Anderson, Caroline Still, 1848-1911 [recipient]

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Correspondence

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Page 2 But of the habits and/<br /> condition of the people/<br /> I do not care to write/<br /> at least when the thermom/<br /> -eter stands where it does/<br /> today, it may be under/<br /> 100 but it strikes me that/<br /> it can not be far short/<br /> of that. Today is very/<br /> hot./<br /> In writing to New/<br /> Bedford, you need not/<br /> put any no. on the/<br /> letter as I am unable/<br /> to give you Mr. Scott&rsquo;s/<br /> number. (With him we are/<br /> to stop) so I will call/<br /> at the Post office for/<br /> letters./<br /> I hope matters are/<br /> going on smoothly. I trust/<br /> Will get up in due time/<br /> Page 3 in the morning and gets/<br /> his breakfast and goes /<br />to the yard and attends/<br /> to matters as occasion/<br /> may require. I think/<br /> I told him that Edward/<br /> would get a saddle and/<br /> that he could take the/<br /> driving horse out occas/<br /> -ionally but that he must/<br /> not take the carriage/<br /> out under any circum/<br /> -stance. Now one thing/<br /> more I hope he does/<br /> not keep bad hours, keeping/<br /> the house open, and some/<br /> one waiting up to let him/<br /> in./<br /> We shall try and be/<br /> at home at the appointed/<br /> time, as we shall in/<br /> all probability realize that/