Letters written to Owen Brown during the years 1846 thru 1849

Springfield, MA - 10 December 1846

I hope you will visit my family as often as you can during my absence, and that you will write us often while here.

Springfield, MA - 2 April 1847

I am quite sensible of the truth of your remark, that my family are quite as well off as though we possessed millions.

Springfield, MA - 1 November 1847

Our business, so far as I can judge, has gone along middling well during my absence.

Springfield, MA - 2 December 1847

I trust that getting or losing money does not entirely engross our attention ; but I am sensible that it occupies quite too large a share in it.

Springfield, MA - 16 January 1848

I never seemed to possess a faculty to console and com fort my friends in their grief; I am inclined, like the poor comforters of Job, to sit down in silence...

Springfield, MA - 5 February 1849

We have in this part of the country the strongest proofs that the great majority have made gold their hope, their only hope.