Letter from Asahel Hart Woodruff, 6 October 1885
Asahel
No 7 Chapel Villas Grays
Essex October 6 [18]85
Dear Father
My felelings are a little
sore this morning in consequence of a
slight accident that befell me or rather
my purse on Saturday evening though not
of a very serious character. I had ben up
to London for about a week and was
returning to my field, on my arrival at the
station I found the train waiting and
proceding at once to the ticket office I
laid down a sovereign receiving my
ticket and some change in return which
I thrust into my pocket being in a hurry
without counting and thought no more
about it untill this morning, when on
examination I find that I am ten shillings
short in the change. The ticket agent evidently
took the coin for a half-sovereign and g[ave]
me change for that ammount—conference held
for a sovereign. This is quiet for no conf
when, and the
