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Henry Eno letters to his family, March 1838-October 1840
1840-10-17 Page 3
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the property left my wife and her brothers & sisters is involved in a heavy debt which we are struggling to pay off it is entered in the name of the three who are of age and consists of a large Hotel a small store & five lots and a half in one body, it rents for $675 per year and could we sell it we should be enabled to save the rest which consists of five hundred acres of land near the town, we would now sell it for $4500 to be paid one half down the balance in a year but even this we cannot get as money is so very scarce. I wish very much that you could come out here but the season is so advanced that you cannot well come this fall and should I be able I shall visit you in the spring together with Elizabeth, I don't intend to despair or give up as it is not in my nature but I really feel now as if all my fond hopes of an honest independence had been blasted, but as I have always been (?) I can still be--------at my time of life and the state of my health it is harder for me than ever - Could Father be induced to let me have $500 until the first of May I would pledge life & honor to repay it should I sell every thing I have as should time be ten times worse but I dislike to ask him and ought not and I would not (?) him or cost him heart or pang for thousands - Elizabeth's health is tolerable good and she wishes to be remembered to you & Eliza - As I am now sanquine of having my eyesight even (?) I will certainly write to you any often and should have (?) so before hand & not been constantly in hopes of being able to write something more cheering - In hopes that better days may yet dawn on my prospects and with most fervent prayers for your health (?) I (?) dear brother Yours most affectionately Henry Eno Give my love to Father & say I will write in a few days
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the property left my wife and her brothers & sisters is involved in a heavy debt which we are struggling to pay off it is entered in the name of the three who are of age and consists of a large Hotel a small store & five lots and a half in one body, it rents for $675 per year and could we sell it we should be enabled to save the rest which consists of five hundred acres of land near the town, we would now sell it for $4500 to be paid one half down the balance in a year but even this we cannot get as money is so very scarce. I wish very much that you could come out here but the season is so advanced that you cannot well come this fall and should I be able I shall visit you in the spring together with Elizabeth, I don't intend to despair or give up as it is not in my nature but I really feel now as if all my fond hopes of an honest independence had been blasted, but as I have always been (?) I can still be--------at my time of life and the state of my health it is harder for me than ever - Could Father be induced to let me have $500 until the first of May I would pledge life & honor to repay it should I sell every thing I have as should time be ten times worse but I dislike to ask him and ought not and I would not (?) him or cost him heart or pang for thousands - Elizabeth's health is tolerable good and she wishes to be remembered to you & Eliza - As I am now sanquine of having my eyesight even (?) I will certainly write to you any often and should have (?) so before hand & not been constantly in hopes of being able to write something more cheering - In hopes that better days may yet dawn on my prospects and with most fervent prayers for your health (?) I (?) dear brother Yours most affectionately Henry Eno Give my love to Father & say I will write in a few days
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