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Henry Eno letters to his family, March 1838-October 1840
1838-09-15 Page 1
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Fort Madison Sept 15, 1838 My dear Father I received your letter of the 12th of August on yesterday and was very glad to hear that you was still enjoying as you say "a tolerable state of health" there was much in your letter however that pained me to learn, I am extremely sorry that Rufus should have left you without your consent or approbation, & I much fear that the course of life he will adopt will be a ruinous one for himself - I have thought several times whether it would not be advisable for him to settle in this country but do not know, if he chooses he could do well here, and so he could in [probably Dutchess, as his father Stephen lived in this NY county (see 1850 US Census: Pine Plains, Dutchess, New York)] every thing depends upon himself, should he ever come out here I will do the best I can to advance his interests and induce him to adopt such a course of life as he should do - My old Schoolmaster Lillie I see by the paper is dead, he had lived so long in the place and his little peculiarities had made him so well known that I presume he will be much missed. My health has been uniformily good since I have been in the west altho the summer has been here as well as in New York most unusually warm, in truth I never recollect to have experienced so much and so long continued hot weather, Elizabeth has been confined about a week with a slight attack of billious fever but is now recovering, for the last six weeks it has been very unhealthy in this section of the Country. There has been more sickness than I have known during all the time I have been in the Country - The hot weather and exuberant growth of vegitation & the river also being now very low are the probable causes - I have lived since the 14th of May about a mile and a half from town in a very comfortable log cabin and my claim or farm have a good well of water by the door a handsome grove of hickory trees around my house and have an excellent garden considering it was never ploughed before. I have an office in town to which I have walked almost every day, to the exercise I have taken and the very
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Fort Madison Sept 15, 1838 My dear Father I received your letter of the 12th of August on yesterday and was very glad to hear that you was still enjoying as you say "a tolerable state of health" there was much in your letter however that pained me to learn, I am extremely sorry that Rufus should have left you without your consent or approbation, & I much fear that the course of life he will adopt will be a ruinous one for himself - I have thought several times whether it would not be advisable for him to settle in this country but do not know, if he chooses he could do well here, and so he could in [probably Dutchess, as his father Stephen lived in this NY county (see 1850 US Census: Pine Plains, Dutchess, New York)] every thing depends upon himself, should he ever come out here I will do the best I can to advance his interests and induce him to adopt such a course of life as he should do - My old Schoolmaster Lillie I see by the paper is dead, he had lived so long in the place and his little peculiarities had made him so well known that I presume he will be much missed. My health has been uniformily good since I have been in the west altho the summer has been here as well as in New York most unusually warm, in truth I never recollect to have experienced so much and so long continued hot weather, Elizabeth has been confined about a week with a slight attack of billious fever but is now recovering, for the last six weeks it has been very unhealthy in this section of the Country. There has been more sickness than I have known during all the time I have been in the Country - The hot weather and exuberant growth of vegitation & the river also being now very low are the probable causes - I have lived since the 14th of May about a mile and a half from town in a very comfortable log cabin and my claim or farm have a good well of water by the door a handsome grove of hickory trees around my house and have an excellent garden considering it was never ploughed before. I have an office in town to which I have walked almost every day, to the exercise I have taken and the very
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