Ham & Eggs to William Still, October 17, 1860

    Source citation
    William Still, The Underground Rail Road (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872), 41-42.
    Author (from)
    Ham & Eggs (A Slave)
    Type
    Letter
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Sayo Ayodele
    Transcription date

    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print.  Spelling and other typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    LETTER FROM HAM & EGGS, SLAVE (U. G. R. R. AG'T).

    PETERSBURG, VA., Oct. 17th, 1860.

    MR. W. STILL-Dear Sir-I am happy to think, that the time has come when we no doubt, can open our correspondence with one another again. Also I am in hopes, that these few lines may find you and family well and in the enjoyment of good health as it leaves me and family the same. I want you to know, that I feel as much determined to work in this glorious cause, as ever 1 did in all of my life, and I have some very good hams on hand that I would like very much for you to have. I have nothing of interest to write about just now, only that the politics of the day is in a high rage, and I don't know of the result, therefore, I want you to be one of those wide-a-wakes as is mentioned from your section of country now-a-days, &c. Also, if you wish to write to me, Mr. J. Brown will inform you how to direct a letter to me.

    No more at present, until I hear from you; but I want you to be a wide-a-wake.

    Yours in haste, HAM & EGGS.

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