Letters: William T. Forsyth, 1853: Northumberland, Northumberland County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Alison Marcoff. amarcof@hotmail.com USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. Pinegrove, Schuylkill County Dec 19th, 1853 Wm Forsythe, Esq Dear Sir, Yours of 15th inst was received on Saturday evening. It was my intention to have visited Northumberland in January, but it is now uncertain whether I can do, as an arrangement is talked of between our company and the new railroad company from this place to Auburn on the Reading track, which may give us a (?) in sending coal. If this arrangement is made I must remain here. I wish very much to meet you at Northumberland and have all our matters closed up satisfactorily and pleasantly, but in regard to the property you occupy my determination is unchanged. It can never be disposed of so long as I live and have the means of retaining it and on this subject I wished to be explicit in my last several letters. That property, as you know, is the last and only one of my former large possessions upon which I have any hold and it is the most desirable to retain. Many other properties in Northumberland that can be attained reasonably will be equally desirable to you, and more advantageously situated for business, while to me, you must admit, no ther spot possesses the same interest. My health is very seriously impaired and during this fall I have suffered unusual inconvenience from the disease on my face. In this state of things I feel the necessity of returning to the society of my children at no distant day and establishing my home permanently among them. Respectfully yours, J.H. cowden