x Hopkinsville Kentucky December ist. 1830 My Dear Brother I Recvd. your welcome letter some time ago bearing date 21st June from which I recvd. great satisfaction knowing by its contents that you were then all well. Recvd. one, from Sister Dinah at the same time but we have not had a word from Surgeon Richey of Bangor Since I came here, Strange as his conduct has been yet I still long to hear of his welfare as a Brother & as a friend. I wrote a letter to Sister Eliza some time before I Recvd. yours which I expect will have come to hand long before this reaches you, I would have answered your letter sooner DATF but having written to Sister Eliza I had ntohing new to communicate. Dr. Robt. you jest me about making a fortune but you say you expect to hear all about that in my next Well all I can say about that at present is that I am just employed in Selling goods & Keeping Books etc. for Jas. without even having asked him what I am to expect for my pains. he is Kind affectionate & generous & lets me want for nothing that I stand in need of & I doubt not but he will be clever enough in rewarding me according to my deserving at any rate I can say nothing about that till I get a pretty good Knowledge of Business.Tell my dear Mother not to trouble herself about sending me any cloths of any kind as I can do very well without them. (I believe I forgot to mention this in my letter to Sister Eliza, j my great: anxiety is lest you may not be all comfortably situated at home but I hope that providence who has watched over & protected me will also support you in all your undertakings. I am very glad to hear you have got on so well this year But still I think you should sell the Broomhedge land the very first good chance you meet with as it would make your trouble less & your circumstances more easy Business is pretty brisk with us at present, ouur Business is generally dull in the hot summer months but increases in the fall & winter, We have almost no Snow, & frost never continues long in this part of Kentucky but the rain descends sometimes in torrents in the winter. -2. James has not visited Philadelphia Since last Autumn as he then laid in a large supply of goods, but he can get goods sent here from his correspondents in Phila. by sending on an order, specifying the quality & quantity etc. of what he wants which he has done in place of going on himself this fall as he did not want a great many goods & we have recd. them some time ago. Jas. Intends being in Phila. in Spring as the Ohio river is hhen in the best navigable condition & it is much cheaper going by watter than by Stage. Our newspapers have been teeming this summer past with accounts of the conflicts & revolution which has taken place in France, They Americans are greatly in favour of any thing like republican principles. Though we may be said to be liming K in the midst of the woods & wilds of America yet ntohing of any public nature occurs in any part of Europe worth recording but what we hear in 3 or 4 weeks after through the medium of our newspapers & my first search in a newspaper is to see if any thing strange has taken place in that dear dear !!! Ireland where I used to inhabit & where still is the home of my heart we had very disagreeable accounts, last summer of the distressing situation of the poor of Ireland from the scarcity & dearness of provisions but as we hear of plentiful crops I hope all these distresses are at an end, when you write next let me know how Geo.