Lenoir County NcArchives History - Letters .....Unknown To Whitfield Grady 1860
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UNKNOWN TO WHITFIELD GRADY - 1860

Little Rock Arkansas February 1st 1860

Mr. Whitfield Grady. My Dear Sir being weather bound as it is snowing today   I 
am sitting indoors thinking and wondering over the past  my mind travel (crease) 
back to the   scenes of my childhood and early manhood. Scenes that are 
indelibly fixed in my recollection, the places where the happiest days of my 
life were spent; times in my early – torn – when I had not learned  what trouble 
(torn) Sorrow was there my mind Still will  thought I am thousands of miles away 
(torn) distant.  The companions of my youth (torn) still there. Some are some in 
distant lands (torn) Some are gone to try the realities of the invisible world, 
and I am here in a strange land and among strangers and I hardly expect  every 
again to see the lands of my nativity again  But this is an uncertain world what 
we do (crease along this entire line)  wife I can form no idea where I will be. 
I  have been out here 6 or 7 weeks and have enjoyed myself as well as could 
expect among  strangers. I am not doing anything at present  (torn) go to work 
soon or I will be out of  (torn) & that is the only friend or stranger (torn)  
This is best farming country I have (torn)  the land is very rich  The farmers  
(torn) are picking cotton yet the trouble here (torn) cotton out not to make it. 
it is also  (torn) to be a sickly country and I suppose is the waters is kept in 
the rivers by levee  (torn) thrown up on the banks on it would (torn) overflows 
in a flash  the land is very low and have a great many bayous or ponds of 
stagnant water about in it  without any chance of draining it.

NOTE:  There is probably a 2nd page but it is not on the scan.  This document 
has several torn and missing places on the left side.

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