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Letter from
John A. Williams
to
Leander F. Crumley
May 23rd, 1855
Clinton County Mo
May the 23/1855
Dear Sir i received you letter
dated April the 8th and was glad to hear that you was well and
also that you had a notion of coming to this country We are all
well and doing very well considering the seveur drouth that we
have experianced heare we have had but little rain for the last
12 months but it is becoming a little more seasonable now and we
have a tolerable prospect for a crop we have the likelist
prospect of any in the county our corn wheat and oats look well
considering the dry weather and I can safely say that this
prarie country can stand a drouth better than any country I ever
saw not to be wetland Produce sell high here corn is worth from
3 to 5 dollars a barrel wheat one dollar and a half per bushel
flour six dollars per hundred bacon from 7 to 8 cents per pound
and a prospect of being higher Coffee six pound to the Dollar
You wished me to tell you the truth about this country I will
try
(pg 2) and do so I consider it a
very good country it is much easier makeing a living hear than
whare you live and I can truely say if I was back there and knew
as much about it as I do I would loose no time till I got back
these things I do not say to get any person to come but you
wanted the whole truth and here it is you can live easier here
and work only two day in the whole week When you get a new
garment here you need not be affraid of that wearing out before
you get another wage is worth from a dollar to a dollar and a
half per day and you can all way find employment of some kind or
other I consider this as healthy a country as that if you take
care of yourself and keep out of the watter. we dont go in a
swiming heare evey day as we used to do there there is some that
do and they have the fun of chilling a few day for it but the
chills is quiting this country and there is very little sickness
here only a case of feaver now an then
(pg 3) You wished me to let you
know about Nebraske I can not recommend that country at this
time it is setting up very fast there is thousands going there
and a great many leaveing there I think in a year or two there
will be a better chance there than at presant there is great
confustion there at present concerning making it a Slave State
and when all these matters are settled I think that we might
stand a better chance than now if you intend coming to this
country when you get this write and let me know when you will be
here and I will try and get you a place to live till you settle
your self and if I can't get you a house you can just come in my
cabin and stay till you get one write whether you will come by
land or by watter and if you come by land I will send you a way
bill so that you will have but little bother in finding the way
if you dont come at all write ocasionaly give our best respects
to all the frinds and beleive me as ever your true friend and
well wisher
to
John A Williams
L F Crumley
submitted by Christine
Crumley Brown
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