[John Warfield Johnston at Columbia, South Carolina, to Louisa Smith Bowen Johnston via Tazewell Courthouse, Virginia, June 22, 1834, folder 68, Trigg-Floyd Collection, Special Collections, John Cook Wyllie Library, The University of Virginia's College at Wise -- formerly Clinch Valley College -- Wise, Virginia. This is my rough transcription].
My dear mother
I sit down to write to you, after an interval of three weeks; a longer space than has yet intervened between any of my letters. This is not neglect. I expected to have been at home before this time: as matters now stand I can scarcely get there in less than three weeks or a month. Uncle Edward has had a long spell of sickness, from which he is just recovering, and he and aunt Estelle have gone out to the country to enjoy the cool air and water, leaving me here to keep house meanwhile. They return in a few days, intending to start, immediately, to some spring southe [sic] of this, to which I am to accompany them, and where they will stay, probably three weeks, but I don't want to go there, I had much rather come home, and will if I can get a [horse?] between this and then.
As soon as I received your last, I commissioned uncle Syd to buy a horse for me, which he did in a few days: and when I went to see it, I found an old, poor, sorebacked, hammerheaded, stiff and, I suspect, blind dray horse, which I refused to take, the instant that I saw it. Coming on horseback is a good deal cheaper than the stage, for what I would lose by buying a horse here and selling him there and my expenses on horseback would not be equal to my expenses in the stage when I would have to sell my saddle and buy a trunk.
Tell Henry I am much obliged to him for his advice but shall not take it: the weather is to [too] warm and the sand to [too] deep for that.
Give my love to all
your affectionate son
J.W. Johnston
[John Warfield Johnston (1818-1889)
Louisa Smith Bowen Johnston (1800-1873)
Uncle Edward = Edward William Johnston (1799-1867)
Aunt Estelle = Marie Antoinette Estelle Costar Johnston (1802-1848)
Uncle Syd = Algernon Sidney Johnston (1801-1852)
Henry = probably Louisa's much younger brother, Henry Smith Bowen (1820-1887)]
My dear mother
I sit down to write to you, after an interval of three weeks; a longer space than has yet intervened between any of my letters. This is not neglect. I expected to have been at home before this time: as matters now stand I can scarcely get there in less than three weeks or a month. Uncle Edward has had a long spell of sickness, from which he is just recovering, and he and aunt Estelle have gone out to the country to enjoy the cool air and water, leaving me here to keep house meanwhile. They return in a few days, intending to start, immediately, to some spring southe [sic] of this, to which I am to accompany them, and where they will stay, probably three weeks, but I don't want to go there, I had much rather come home, and will if I can get a [horse?] between this and then.
As soon as I received your last, I commissioned uncle Syd to buy a horse for me, which he did in a few days: and when I went to see it, I found an old, poor, sorebacked, hammerheaded, stiff and, I suspect, blind dray horse, which I refused to take, the instant that I saw it. Coming on horseback is a good deal cheaper than the stage, for what I would lose by buying a horse here and selling him there and my expenses on horseback would not be equal to my expenses in the stage when I would have to sell my saddle and buy a trunk.
Tell Henry I am much obliged to him for his advice but shall not take it: the weather is to [too] warm and the sand to [too] deep for that.
Give my love to all
your affectionate son
J.W. Johnston
[John Warfield Johnston (1818-1889)
Louisa Smith Bowen Johnston (1800-1873)
Uncle Edward = Edward William Johnston (1799-1867)
Aunt Estelle = Marie Antoinette Estelle Costar Johnston (1802-1848)
Uncle Syd = Algernon Sidney Johnston (1801-1852)
Henry = probably Louisa's much younger brother, Henry Smith Bowen (1820-1887)]
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