Record Data
Source citation
William Still, The Underground Rail Road (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872), 110.
Type
Letter
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Sayo Ayodele
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Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as true to the original written document as possible. Spelling and other typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
NORRISTOWN Oct 18th 1857 2 o'clock P M
DEAR SIR:--There is Six men and women and Five children making Eleven Persons. If you are willing to Receve them write to me imediately and I will bring them to your To morrow Evening I would not. Have wrote this But the Times are so much worse Financialy that I thought It best to hear From you Before I Brought such a Crowd Down Pleas Answer this and Oblige JOHN AUGUSTA.
