William Gay Butler letter to Jonathan Butler 2nd, 1826 April 28
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Correspondent (crp): Butler, William Gay, 1799-1857
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William Gay Butler letter to Jonathan Butler 2nd, 1826 April 28
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reformatted digital
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Letter addressed from Pittsburgh, with a stamped postmark including the date, for 25 cents postage. The paper is torn and stained with red wax residue where it was sealed. William Gay Butler writes to his father Jonathan Butler in West Hartford about family news and his business. He received a letter dated April 19 from his sister Maria and her husband George Wells, and relates that they are well, though Maria has been troubled with a swollen breast. The new baby weighed 13 1/2 lbs and is named George Butler Wells. William has heard nothing from his brother Epaphras Butler, but plans to send him a letter in a few days. William writes that his business since last accounting to Jonathan has been discouraging. It was a very wet winter and now a very cold and backward spring; the roads are very bad, business is dull, and money is scarce. On his most recent trip out William sold $2800 worth of goods, but a large share for barter, and he has lost $300 or more. William writes that "it appears it does but little good for me to toil for gain for it takes wings and flies away it is verry discouraging but do not intend to dispair but thankful for so good a living and live in hopes of more prosperous Days although it appears wrong to spend several years of the best or active part of life and nothing to show or for a future Day. Although I have done nothing I can reproch myself for I have the satisfaction of a clear conscience that it better to be wronged than to do wrong." He paid the draft Hiram Roberts sent to Philadelphia in due time, and had it forwarded to himself for safety. He forwarded a load of glass ("100 fifty feet boxes") to Mssrs. Watkinson and Collins per their order, which he says shipped 30 days ago and should have reached Hartford by now. For their other order ("15 fifty feet and 5 100 feet boxes") he referred them to Hiram Roberts for instructions. William writes that he received a letter from John Boyd, his business partner in Williamsburg, who "was well and says business something better money a little plentyer" so that they will be able to meet their debts coming due the next month, although he worries about those due in July. William writes that he will go to Williamsburg in ten days, and plans to travel from there home to Connecticut.
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79.23.44
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