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Henry Eno letters to his father, January 1835-July 1837
1837-07-12 Page 1
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Fort Madison July 12, 1837 Dear Father I received your last letter about six weeks since and give myself much blame for not answering it sooner, for I know from my own extreme anxiety to hear from you that you must feel solicitous to hear from me - Your letter gave me very great satisfaction not only in the comfortable assurance that you was enjoying a tolerable state of health but that your views in relation to the subject which in the latter part of your letter you treated of were so consonant with my own. The reflections which you make on your time of life forcibly reminded me of one of the discourses of Cicero "de sensate" and altho I had not read it for several years I was not contented until I procured it. I consider it one of the most beautiful of his writings and should be read by every one old & young - the Idea that I was growing old a few years ago gave me an occasional pang but it does so no longer and altho I feel conscious that I have arrived at an age when the lively boy and feelings of youth are sobered down and are never to return still I find myself much happier & more centered between thirty & forty than I was between twenty & thirty - I have enjoyed very good health since I have been here & have not had an hours sickness and have never repented for a moment leaving Yates Co for Peoria or Peoria for this place. I find myself in better circumstances than I ever should have been in Yates Co and think I have a good right to look forward to the future - I never expect to be rich but I can be independent - and I feel conscious that I am respected by all whose respect is worth having My professional business will support me this year & I think a little more and I can now get $1000 advance on some property I purchased in the spring - the monies prepare in the east does not seriously affect this country there are no banks here & the liabilities of the merchants and other are scarcely any thing - Emigrants also bring in a great deal of money, There have at least three thousand persons crossed here at this place since the opening
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Fort Madison July 12, 1837 Dear Father I received your last letter about six weeks since and give myself much blame for not answering it sooner, for I know from my own extreme anxiety to hear from you that you must feel solicitous to hear from me - Your letter gave me very great satisfaction not only in the comfortable assurance that you was enjoying a tolerable state of health but that your views in relation to the subject which in the latter part of your letter you treated of were so consonant with my own. The reflections which you make on your time of life forcibly reminded me of one of the discourses of Cicero "de sensate" and altho I had not read it for several years I was not contented until I procured it. I consider it one of the most beautiful of his writings and should be read by every one old & young - the Idea that I was growing old a few years ago gave me an occasional pang but it does so no longer and altho I feel conscious that I have arrived at an age when the lively boy and feelings of youth are sobered down and are never to return still I find myself much happier & more centered between thirty & forty than I was between twenty & thirty - I have enjoyed very good health since I have been here & have not had an hours sickness and have never repented for a moment leaving Yates Co for Peoria or Peoria for this place. I find myself in better circumstances than I ever should have been in Yates Co and think I have a good right to look forward to the future - I never expect to be rich but I can be independent - and I feel conscious that I am respected by all whose respect is worth having My professional business will support me this year & I think a little more and I can now get $1000 advance on some property I purchased in the spring - the monies prepare in the east does not seriously affect this country there are no banks here & the liabilities of the merchants and other are scarcely any thing - Emigrants also bring in a great deal of money, There have at least three thousand persons crossed here at this place since the opening
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