Addressed from New York, on board Capt. Samuel Buck Sloop, Lilly Burlings Slip, with a red stamped postmark including the date. The thin laid paper is torn and red wax remains where it was sealed. William Gay Butler writes to his father Jonathan Butler in West Hartford about his journey to New York. They arrived in Middletown Wednesday, got into Long Island Sound Thursday evening, and arrived in New York late Friday morning. William writes that they experienced rough seas, and he was a little seasick, though not so much as the other passengers. He found no letters from his father at the post office, so called on Amos Butler and Elihu Butler but they had not received anything, either. He will call on P. L. Mills and Co. that day to see whether Jonathan might have written to them, and asks him to direct mail care of Amos Butler, 159 Pearl Street. He had dinner with Elihu Butler, who advised him to stay for eight or nine days to look for work, and offered to help him find a place. William writes that he sent this letter care of Henry Phelps because he thought it would get to Jonathan sooner. He asks his father to write to him about his sister Maria Butler's journey home, and mentions that he met two passengers with the same names as his sisters, Maria and Eliza. They were General Taylor's daughters from Middle Haddam.
