Letter from Calvin TUNNELL, Greene County, Illinois

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                                        Dublin,Va. July 27, 1860




Dear Jackson and friends.

     We are all well.  George has got so that he can work a
little.  This is Friday evening.  On Thursday night at 11 oclock,
next week, 2nd August, I am going to start home, then I will have
been here two months.  Your cousin John will meet me at Knoxville
in friday.  The run is about 14 hours.  I prefer starting in the
night because I cannot sleep the first night anyhow and I would
rather arrive in day time that to start in the day and arrive in
the night.  I shall stop a week or perhaps ten days in Tennessee.
I shall write nomore perhaps until I am about starting from
Knoxville.  You need not be uneasy about me.  I think I am able
to make the trip.  People here pronounce me a stout old man.  I
have enjoyed myself first rate.  Have formed acquaintances with
some of the F.F.V.'s.  Have been treated courteously but have not
been able to make as many visits as it desired.  The girls have
no chance of having their likeness taken as there is no one here
now to take them.  They say they will have it done and send them
to you.  I think I will be home from the 15th to the 20th
proximo.  I do not yet know whether I will go by way of Nashville
and Louisville or through Alabama and to the grand Junction
thence to Cairo or whether I shall take the river at Columbus,
Ky.  If I take the latter course I shall perhaps go by water the
balance of the way as it will be more easy.  If I like the cars
well I will perhaps go all the way by rail as it will enable me
to get home a couple of days sooner.  I cannot get a through
ticket here nor at      Bristol.  If I determine on the route
before I leave Knoxville I will let you know it if I can.  Your
letter of 15th Une was received last Sunday 22 July.  I have had
no letters from Illinois except your three and your Cousin Mary's
(one).  Ezekiel & Elizabeth got one from Daniel and one from John
and one from Eliza.  I need not write more now as I hope I will
soon be blessed with the privilege of seeing you all and to talk
with you face to face.  Give my respects to all the nieghbors. 
The Douglass feeling seems to be on the increase though some say
   he cannot get the vote of the state and that he and the
secesion or disunion candidate will so divide the vote that Bell
will get the state.  I think Douglass is gaining every day and
light is all that is necessary to give him the vote, the papers
read here are rather ultra and are unfair but the Douglass papers
are beginning to come in and I have some hope that they will do
their work.  Last week we made a club and sent for 17 copys of
the Missouri Republican.
                              Farewell,
                                   Calvin Tunnell
P.S. I see you are going to have a meeting on the day of my
departure.  I wish I could be there.
                                   C.T.


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