Rockford, Winnebago County, Ill., May 7, 1855.
Dear Children,
— I am here with my stock of cattle to sell, in order to raise funds so that I
can move to North Elba, and think I may get them off in about two weeks. Oliver
is here with me. We shall get on so late that we can put in no crops (which I
regret), so that you had perhaps better plant or sow what you can conveniently
on “95.”1 I heard from John and Jason and their families (all well)
at St. Louis on the 21st April, expecting to leave there on the evening of that
day to go up the Missouri for Kansas. My family at Akron were well on the 4th
inst. As I may be detained here some days after you get this, I wish you to
write me at once what wheat and corn are worth at Westport now, as near as you
can learn. People are here so busy sowing their extensive fields of grain, that
I cannot get them even to see my cattle now. Direct to this place, care of
Shepard Leach, Esq.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and
Letters of John Brown, p. 193
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