Record Data
Source citation
William Still, to Joseph C. Bustill, Philadelphia, PA, 2 November 1857. As printed in The Underground Railroad, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA.
Recipient (to)
Bustill, Joseph C.
Type
Letter
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Wes McCoy
Transcription date
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.
Dear Sir:
With regard to those unprovided for, I think it will be safe to send them on any time toward the latter part of this week. Far better it will be for them in Canada, this winter, where they can procure plenty of work, than it will be in Pennsylvania, where labor will be scarce and hands plenty, with the usual amount of dread and danger hanging over the head of the Fugitive. From the place where the ten of you referred to came, forty four have left within the last two weeks- 16 of whom we have passed on, I trust safely.
After the middle of this week, I think you might venture to send them to us in “Small parcels”- that is, not over four or five in a company.
If convenient, you will confer a favor by dropping us a few lines informing us by what hour and train the arrivals will come. Your truly,
William Still
With regard to those unprovided for, I think it will be safe to send them on any time toward the latter part of this week. Far better it will be for them in Canada, this winter, where they can procure plenty of work, than it will be in Pennsylvania, where labor will be scarce and hands plenty, with the usual amount of dread and danger hanging over the head of the Fugitive. From the place where the ten of you referred to came, forty four have left within the last two weeks- 16 of whom we have passed on, I trust safely.
After the middle of this week, I think you might venture to send them to us in “Small parcels”- that is, not over four or five in a company.
If convenient, you will confer a favor by dropping us a few lines informing us by what hour and train the arrivals will come. Your truly,
William Still