I have received your letter of 25 ult°
and thank you for the favor. I am sorry you did not
mention some plan when I might direct a ^letter^ which would
reach you before you should arrive here. But presuming
you did not mean to avoid my correspondence I now
address you and hope you will get the letter at fathers,
I had calculated to go home this fall and shall probably
do so though I should much regret thus to lose [the] chance
of seeing you on your way to farwestFarWest.
I shall think it unkind if you do not advise me from
some point on your route when you will be in Terri Haute
that I may not be absent at that time. Suppose you
write me from Columbus, O. and if I have anything
to communicate I will write you at that place.
When you arrive at Columbus I wish you would call
on James Kilbourn Jr a Cousin and Esteemed friend
of mine. He is a young Physician of the Reformed MedicalCollege. was recently married as he has
informed me by Letter and is a very clever fellow
He will be glad to see you and will tell you about Uncle Asahel Harts family. If you tarry any time at Indianapolis you may if you please present yourself on
my account and at my risk to John W Osborne Editor
of the "Indiana Farmer." and of the "Temperance
Advocate." Mr Osborne is my friend and will be
glad to extend civility to my brother.
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Mr Francis Cunningham lives 14 miles from
East from this place on the National Road.
his place is called VanBuren. I hope you
will be kind enough to call and present yourself
and lady to the family as they will be glad to see you
on my account. They are highly respectable and
very clever people (formerly kindhome). and
will treat you in a hospitable manner.
Elder Hale your friend and companion in arms,
called upon me as he passed through here last
friday. He was in company with 500 Saints going
up to Mssouri. I assure you that it was a high
gratification to me to spend an hour with one who
had journied with you so long. And my regret at
parting with him was softened only by the reflection
that the same motives which led him hither woud
would soon bring you this way and that I should
thus once more have the happiness of beholding
my long absent brother, for this event I wait with
impatience. Please renew the assurances of my
kindest regard to Mrs Woodruff. I regard her with
much affection because she is the wife of my brother.
I have learned to respect her because I know her
to be worthy. If your choice was is not sufficent proof
of her worth, I have it in the assurances of those
who have had an opportunity of judging.