The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-22
Continued From Last sunday3


Not an oyster have ] got hut once since
sot home. Bobby is now well and
gone to school he has been very i'll
since / came down 1 cent for him 6.
Kept him near a fortnight &. gave him
the nitro and barlse which SGT him up
quite hearty he is at present living at
MIR. Maury's. have ordered Billy to
call on him for a letter TO YOU that
you may know his Reasons for being
at Mr.. Maurys | also send a letter !
lately Received from my sweet Suckey
least there dear mother may not have
Received one from her deare Girls.
Mr.. Brooke tells me they are all well
& merry G comfortably settled.
bless &c praise my God for 1t.
Since ] began this letter came in
Mrs &, Coll. Ball with their 4 children
servants and two horses. They have
been here these two days he also sent
over for Mr.. Garrett TO spend n day
and night with him, as also one of
his old overseers to Breakfast Talk
ing & enquiring into all Mr.. Garnetts
affairs and keeping everything in con-
fusion until near Twelve o'clock in
tho day. Indeed they arc the most
troublesome family / ever had in my
house.
The day after they came to Newpost
there came in to tea Mrs Page, Miss
Tayloe. two Miss Lomaxes, Miss
Grymes and Miss Page indeed ! have
my hands full within this week as
well Is my head providing for so many
and not yet got my goods from Mr..
Maury's that my house is almost left
without necessarys but tomorrow
shall send up to Mr.. Maury for my
things II no Will be 80 kind as to let
me have them. L have ordered billy
to wait for my negroes shoes until
| they arc done for they can't do with
out them.
have Just got homo my goods
| with the account. Indeed 1 am I'M
! happy that it amounts co so much but
the negroes blankets & linnen has
madc 1t weighty. Mr.. Maury has also
raised 1t by sending mo so much porter
as also more sheeting then I wanted
as he could not cut the piece. The Ia
hle cloths are twice tho price that l
set them down at alltho very courcc
and small for the price. but was oblig-
cd to get them not having more than
ten pair OF sheets in the house owing
to my old stock being all Damag ed
and quite 10 pieces by getting wet and
mildued when the British drove us all
, from home. Indeed when I saw tho
, account 1t broake me OF my Rest-it
made me so unhappy least 1 might
not be ablo to pay 1t In time.
/ think IT strange when your brother
! complains SO of poverty that he men
tions buying a Tract of land in Ken
| lucky. have been informed since I
I came down that his proposals was In
Respect to my affairs for me to mako
over all my lands TO him. he pulling
! 5000 In the funds & for me to
draw my 200 per year as long as 7
| lived e at my death tho principal
| to return to him.
SO my dear you may see by this that
was to run every Risque with my
! fortune & get no more than my To-
| bacco brings in now. this | will never
| do. Should the funds sink or come to
nothing as has been tho case in other
countrys I might be left beggar in
my old age. God 1 hope Directs mo
| right for was / to come into his pro-
! posals J believe it would kill me / am
sorry for his extravaganza but I can't
F., help it must take care OF myself
in my old age.
! forgot to toll YOU that last year
| I had two Wagon load of fodder from
Aleck and this year shall only want
| fodder sufficient for oxen &: horses
J should I be able to got another horse
which llttlo expect but in case j do,
how much fodder must get from
| Allick. for those horses and steers
pray write mo word by billy. After
| your goodness my dearest child In
| sending the plank--do you think can
get carpenter to plank up tho nur-
sery? Therefore must make billy &
paris do their possables let 1t be done
over so awkwardly or the hard winds
and snow will drive mo out of my
chaimber g. what to do for tools to
worke with as I am afraid TO get
anything more from Mr.. Maurys and
them that goes a borrowing go a scc-