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Letter from Christopher Hawkins to his brother, Green B. Jameson
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Transcription below - original facsimile here Miles Point, Kentucky, Feb 3rd, 1834. Dear Brother: With pleasure I spend the evening in writing to you. I am well and hope these lines to find you enjoying the same blessing. Sir, I think it my duty to commence by way of an apology for not having written you before this time. Eight years have now elapsed since I have seen you, during which time I have written to you but once, and that I expect you did not get, for I rote with a view of it meeting you at New Orleans, and I have since learned from your one letter that you did not get it. I spent 3 months of the fall and winter of 1833 and 34 in the State of Mississippi from whence I went to Louisville, Ky, and there I spent 5 months. Since that time I have been on the river. I have been engaged in selling my goods on the river. I have now quit that business, and am engaged in loading of a flat boat. I expect to have her loaded by this day week at farthest, and then I expect to float her to New Orleans as quick as the water will float her there. At that place I expect to continue for some weeks. I want you to write to me as soon as you get this, and let me know where you are at present, and also tell me your situation at present., and what you are doing, and if I should come there, what I could make per year, and if I can do well. I expect I shall come to that country in the course of the summer. I dont want you to deceive me in any shape whatever. I want you to tell me in plane terms everything you do tell me, and deceive me nothing.
You will please to excuse my diction and bad writing, as the river is rough, and I have to write on my nee, and besides my mind is much confused. I am done, but still remain your sincere and affectionate
Brother, till death. C. H. Jameson. Transcription by Patty (Jamerson) Archer. |
