BOX OF OLD LATTA LETTERS
MR. ROBERT LATTA ESQR NOBEL COUNTY GOOD HOPE POST OFFICE
INDIANA STATE
[Postmark says Mount Pleasant May 9. 25 written by the
address. Folded as a packet letter.]
May the 8 1844 Dear brothr and Sister I take through the
blessing of kind providence we are at well at present hoping
these lines will find you enjoying the same blessing I reseived
a leter fre brother Johns Widow dated aprile the 8 huse and
famly was all Well and sister katherin Huyeys family was Well My
son thuan Thomas left home March the 25 bound for your Contry he
allowed to go on steamboat at pittsburg hecalculatd going by the
ohio riverto the moth of the Wabash river and go by it to the
cannel and go by it to Fort Wain and from thence to you and
hispriat the hawpatch and he Was to write to us as soon as
possible When he Would knom how you Ware all and Would pay a
guile on the land and we have been looking for a letter from him
the 13 of aprile and that three tim a Week ever since and has
never got anny yet. We are afraid that he never got ther and if
he did We Wish him to Write as soon as possible and if he is not
thire I Wish you to Write and letus know if you heard any thing
of him as We are getting verry uneasy abought him for fear som
eseident has happened him No' I send my best resepects to all
the friends [to] Robert Latta Esqr [from] Samuel Latta
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