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and habits and the state of the government and the prospects generally and if you know any thing about geology something on that subject. Sarah & her husband & two children Zeland & Jonathan were well last week & James Karly & Mary 3 or 4 week ago. Elizabeth is well & sends her love to you & Elizabeth.
Your Affectionate Brother
Thomas Townsend
[address in center]
Dr John Townsend
San Francisco
California
[written in black ink]
Wheeling Va July 25th 1847
Dear Brother
Yesterday, I received your letter of the 16th of March. And as it will take aletter so long to reach you I will not delay answering it.
It is many years since I received a letter from you and I was surprised at the receipt of it because I have expected never to hear from you again. I am rejoiced to hear that you are living & I hope doing well. It is to be regretted that relations such as our family should be separated so far. But next of all is it to be regretted that the separation should not be confined to geographical distance alone! I have often looked on with astonishment and wondered of the amount of mischief which some evil disposed person is capable of doing. The unfair game & grass misrepresentations made by D Heacock to my brother Amos prevented Amos from having any communication with me for many years before his death which took place the 12th of September 1845. What representations he may have made to you I know not. But from your silence in writing - your passing by my door without stopping in 1840 when you brought Elizabeth from Indiana where Heacock not withstanding the written argument between him & me concerning him when [struck through] Heacock [struck through] had abandoned & left her - your having been several times in this place during your [illegible] in [illegible] can oe without calling or letting me know you were in the city induces in me the belief that great misrepresentations of me had been made by him to you. I knew him so well & his adroitness & distrust in falsehood were so great I considered it useless to offer you any contradictory statements which you were in communication & business with him. For he would immediately bya new falsehood make it worse. I therefore concluded to wait & let you find him out as I had done.
[written across in blue ink]
Wheeling Va July 29 1847
After filling my shut & folding it the idea occured to me that I could add some more by cross writing with a different ink. This will enable me to say a little of the [illegible] ticks of our country & such other [illegible] as may come into my mind. Since you left the states for California war has been brought on by our country with [illegible]. Thu war is considered by nearly all the whig party in the United States as an unjust war on our part growing out of the annexation of Texas and the annexation you are aware was opposed by all the judicious [illegible] in [?] of the nation among the reasons it wouldlead to a war
The Texans after they disclosed their independency ridiculously enough claimed all that partition of the province of [illegible] a province of Mexico which lies between the Rem Nueces and the Rio Grande on Del Nort and westward into the late [?] of know not how for on how much . However our President James K. Polk sent what he called an army of [acc?] which took its station not in exas proper but that part of Mexico in the Province of Former [?] between the Nucees & the Rio Grandes and thereby actually invaded Mexico. After some time the army was ordered to move to the Rio Grande which it did and built a
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| Title | Townsend Correspondence 1847 |
| Creator | Thomas Townsend |
| Date | 1847-07-25 |
| Description | Letter to John Townsend from his brother Thomas informing of his suspicions about the death of their sister Hannah and regretting their loss of contact. The letter is written in two layers to save paper, running once in black ink and then written over crosswise to continue in blue ink. |
| Object Type | correspondence |
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| Rights | We have determined this work to be in the public domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright. Users are free to copy, use, and redistribute the work in part or in whole. It is possible that current copyright holders, heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as illustrations or photographs, assert copyrights over these portions. Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address. |
| Collection | Townsend Family Papers 1826-1914 |
| Language | english |
| Repository | California Room, San Jose Public Library |
| Transcript | [written in black ink] and habits and the state of the government and the prospects generally and if you know any thing about geology something on that subject. Sarah & her husband & two children Zeland & Jonathan were well last week & James Karly & Mary 3 or 4 week ago. Elizabeth is well & sends her love to you & Elizabeth. Your Affectionate Brother Thomas Townsend [address in center] Dr John Townsend San Francisco California [written in black ink] Wheeling Va July 25th 1847 Dear Brother Yesterday, I received your letter of the 16th of March. And as it will take aletter so long to reach you I will not delay answering it. It is many years since I received a letter from you and I was surprised at the receipt of it because I have expected never to hear from you again. I am rejoiced to hear that you are living & I hope doing well. It is to be regretted that relations such as our family should be separated so far. But next of all is it to be regretted that the separation should not be confined to geographical distance alone! I have often looked on with astonishment and wondered of the amount of mischief which some evil disposed person is capable of doing. The unfair game & grass misrepresentations made by D Heacock to my brother Amos prevented Amos from having any communication with me for many years before his death which took place the 12th of September 1845. What representations he may have made to you I know not. But from your silence in writing - your passing by my door without stopping in 1840 when you brought Elizabeth from Indiana where Heacock not withstanding the written argument between him & me concerning him when [struck through] Heacock [struck through] had abandoned & left her - your having been several times in this place during your [illegible] in [illegible] can oe without calling or letting me know you were in the city induces in me the belief that great misrepresentations of me had been made by him to you. I knew him so well & his adroitness & distrust in falsehood were so great I considered it useless to offer you any contradictory statements which you were in communication & business with him. For he would immediately bya new falsehood make it worse. I therefore concluded to wait & let you find him out as I had done. [written across in blue ink] Wheeling Va July 29 1847 After filling my shut & folding it the idea occured to me that I could add some more by cross writing with a different ink. This will enable me to say a little of the [illegible] ticks of our country & such other [illegible] as may come into my mind. Since you left the states for California war has been brought on by our country with [illegible]. Thu war is considered by nearly all the whig party in the United States as an unjust war on our part growing out of the annexation of Texas and the annexation you are aware was opposed by all the judicious [illegible] in [?] of the nation among the reasons it wouldlead to a war The Texans after they disclosed their independency ridiculously enough claimed all that partition of the province of [illegible] a province of Mexico which lies between the Rem Nueces and the Rio Grande on Del Nort and westward into the late [?] of know not how for on how much . However our President James K. Polk sent what he called an army of [acc?] which took its station not in exas proper but that part of Mexico in the Province of Former [?] between the Nucees & the Rio Grandes and thereby actually invaded Mexico. After some time the army was ordered to move to the Rio Grande which it did and built a |
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| File Name | csj-TownsendCorr-018a.jpg |
| Title | Townsend Correspondence, 1847 |
| Creator | Thomas Townsend |
| Date | 1847-07-25 |
| Description | Letter to John Townsend from his brother Thomas informing of his suspicions about the death of their sister Hannah and regretting their loss of contact. The letter is written in two layers to save paper, running once in black ink and then written over crosswise to continue in blue ink. |
| Object Type | Correspondence |
| Format | jpeg |
| Rights | We have determined this work to be in the public domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright. Users are free to copy, use, and redistribute the work in part or in whole. It is possible that current copyright holders, heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as illustrations or photographs, assert copyrights over these portions. Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address. |
| Collection | Townsend Family Papers 1826-1914 |
| Language | english |
| Repository | California Room, San Jose Public Library |
| Transcript | [written in black ink] and habits and the state of the government and the prospects generally and if you know any thing about geology something on that subject. Sarah & her husband & two children Zeland & Jonathan were well last week & James Karly & Mary 3 or 4 week ago. Elizabeth is well & sends her love to you & Elizabeth. Your Affectionate Brother Thomas Townsend [address in center] Dr John Townsend San Francisco California [written in black ink] Wheeling Va July 25th 1847 Dear Brother Yesterday, I received your letter of the 16th of March. And as it will take aletter so long to reach you I will not delay answering it. It is many years since I received a letter from you and I was surprised at the receipt of it because I have expected never to hear from you again. I am rejoiced to hear that you are living & I hope doing well. It is to be regretted that relations such as our family should be separated so far. But next of all is it to be regretted that the separation should not be confined to geographical distance alone! I have often looked on with astonishment and wondered of the amount of mischief which some evil disposed person is capable of doing. The unfair game & grass misrepresentations made by D Heacock to my brother Amos prevented Amos from having any communication with me for many years before his death which took place the 12th of September 1845. What representations he may have made to you I know not. But from your silence in writing - your passing by my door without stopping in 1840 when you brought Elizabeth from Indiana where Heacock not withstanding the written argument between him & me concerning him when [struck through] Heacock [struck through] had abandoned & left her - your having been several times in this place during your [illegible] in [illegible] can oe without calling or letting me know you were in the city induces in me the belief that great misrepresentations of me had been made by him to you. I knew him so well & his adroitness & distrust in falsehood were so great I considered it useless to offer you any contradictory statements which you were in communication & business with him. For he would immediately bya new falsehood make it worse. I therefore concluded to wait & let you find him out as I had done. [written across in blue ink] Wheeling Va July 29 1847 After filling my shut & folding it the idea occured to me that I could add some more by cross writing with a different ink. This will enable me to say a little of the [illegible] ticks of our country & such other [illegible] as may come into my mind. Since you left the states for California war has been brought on by our country with [illegible]. Thu war is considered by nearly all the whig party in the United States as an unjust war on our part growing out of the annexation of Texas and the annexation you are aware was opposed by all the judicious [illegible] in [?] of the nation among the reasons it wouldlead to a war The Texans after they disclosed their independency ridiculously enough claimed all that partition of the province of [illegible] a province of Mexico which lies between the Rem Nueces and the Rio Grande on Del Nort and westward into the late [?] of know not how for on how much . However our President James K. Polk sent what he called an army of [acc?] which took its station not in exas proper but that part of Mexico in the Province of Former [?] between the Nucees & the Rio Grandes and thereby actually invaded Mexico. After some time the army was ordered to move to the Rio Grande which it did and built a |
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