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Henry Eno letters to his family, March 1838-October 1840
1840-10-17 Page 1
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Fort Madison Oct 17 1840 My Dearest Brother I received your last letter a short time [since?] & should have answered it immediately but have been unable on account of my eyes. I am glad to hear that you are well & in prosporous business & I know that you would also be pleased to hear the same news from me, but one short year has ruined my situation most sadly. My long continued sickness the feeble state in which it left me & then the severest of all afflictions my sore eyes has I confess depressed my spirits and given me more gloomy & melancholy forebodings than I ever had before. The consequent loss of business has also been [aid] to seriously derange my affairs, one year ago I had the best business of any lawyer in this County now I have none & if I had could not attend to it. Our [Court?] is now over & the little business I had I had to get others to attend to it as I was almost blind within a few days. I have obtained great relief from a preperation of Zink & now hope to recover - but what to do I hardly know. Our town lots have not yet been in market but are expected to be in the course of the winter, I hold what would be a pretty handsom property could I enter them, but this Country is so drained of money that none can be borrowed short of fifty per cent at hardly at that, and a man might as well be ruined one way as another, to enter I pay for what I claim or now hold would require some four hundred dollars & I find it impossible to make sales unless at a most ruinous sacrifice. I have never been able to collect as yet any thing on the large notes I hold against the men I note to and shall have to wait the slow process of Wisconsin laws. I have put the notes in (suit?) and hope some day to realize something handsome on them which would bring me up again
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Fort Madison Oct 17 1840 My Dearest Brother I received your last letter a short time [since?] & should have answered it immediately but have been unable on account of my eyes. I am glad to hear that you are well & in prosporous business & I know that you would also be pleased to hear the same news from me, but one short year has ruined my situation most sadly. My long continued sickness the feeble state in which it left me & then the severest of all afflictions my sore eyes has I confess depressed my spirits and given me more gloomy & melancholy forebodings than I ever had before. The consequent loss of business has also been [aid] to seriously derange my affairs, one year ago I had the best business of any lawyer in this County now I have none & if I had could not attend to it. Our [Court?] is now over & the little business I had I had to get others to attend to it as I was almost blind within a few days. I have obtained great relief from a preperation of Zink & now hope to recover - but what to do I hardly know. Our town lots have not yet been in market but are expected to be in the course of the winter, I hold what would be a pretty handsom property could I enter them, but this Country is so drained of money that none can be borrowed short of fifty per cent at hardly at that, and a man might as well be ruined one way as another, to enter I pay for what I claim or now hold would require some four hundred dollars & I find it impossible to make sales unless at a most ruinous sacrifice. I have never been able to collect as yet any thing on the large notes I hold against the men I note to and shall have to wait the slow process of Wisconsin laws. I have put the notes in (suit?) and hope some day to realize something handsome on them which would bring me up again
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