Schley-Sumter-Marion County GaArchives History - Letters .....Dunn To Hallock, James B May 19, 1852 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ernie Jones http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00032.html#0007882 August 7, 2011, 11:22 am Pond Town May 19, 1852 Friend(?) Hallock Yours of the 12th came to hand today and I take the first moment of leisure to give it a brief answer. Owing to the death of Mrs Thompson the lady you saw at the north(?) I have been left alone for two days & am consequently about used up. I am having all alone the management of the whole business besides the P.O. department & you of course will excuse brevity under such circumstances. You hardly imagine how sadly I feel now that the bright hopes I had cherished of connecting myself with you in trade this fall are blasted. I was led to hope & in hoping opened a correspondence with you upon the subject & God knows the disappointment is hard to bear. I gave up my situation and had made preparations to vist several localities I had in mind but fathers letter bid me banish all hopes of assistance from him this spring. I assure you I regrett the loss of so fine a chance & of such splendid openings as are now(?) offered. If he had only let us know sooner for your sake I would have been better pleased and sincerely regrett having been through indirectly the cause of disappointment to you. Fathers offer of assisting me to 500 this spring & one thousand next might have been satisfactory to you if I had only had an opportunity to make it happen so to you. I think however it a poor go for me to offer on such terms to you and your plans for the future must have been somewhat attested of late. I do regret the necessity that compells me to give such pleasant prospects as business offers us in this country. As for myself I shall try my own hand on my own hook(?)in some way and rest assured I shall convince those at home I can make money even though I have but 1/2 a chance. When ???? him again & to you I shall & I hope have my plans matured. The business I shall go into is an honerable one but an unpleasant one yet bids to be profitable & the almighty dollar I must make & will if God spares my health. I may be north soon yet cannot tell so my plans are all topsy turvey. I had the honest belief we were to be partners but as the bubble has burst I am obliged to do the best I can on my limited means. My situation is probably lost but if I follow out my present plans it will make no difference. If I were ?? & now I imagine we could make a go of it yet but as this is now can not be I must rest content & do the best I can. But money I am bound to make & that as soon as I have calculated upon the take we could have been first rate but as the die is cast there is no sense in talking. Write soon and believe me truly yours ? Dunn I will write again in a day or two. Love to all. ?D Additional Comments: This letter was written to a Mr. James B. Hallock who on the 1850 census was 38 years old, unmarried, a merchant, and residing in a hotel in Elmira New York. On the 1860 census he is married with 2 children, age 49, and is a blacksmith in Hancock, Delaware, New York. Unfortunately I was unable to confidently identify the writer of the letter. There were several Dunn families in Sumter, Marion & Macon counties at the time of the writing.--HH File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/schley/history/letters/dunntoha353ms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb