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                                                Peterboro 29th July 1846 
 
  Dear Sister 
 
  I duly received yours of the 10th Inst.  Daniel says he can or could get 
$50 a year more for this Farm than $70 I offered to take that sum a year 
since I came here and during his lifetime and give up the Stock and every 
thing even my services for the time that is past and I only proposed this 
when he refused to make the lease during his lifetime agreeable to our 
settled bargain in April last and an annuity on $50.  I [...] do not want if 
I have the Farm but he may depend upon it that when he takes the Farm from 
me I will charge him that sum and possibly double.   Archie confesses he 
cleared $100 on it after paying all expences so you see taking 50 out of 70 
is a humbug and $70 is more than he was making on it if we believe his word 
which goes just as suits him at the time he wishes or is urged to it to get 
quit of me and there is no misrepresentation spared however crooked to 
square with another and you may depend on it that my greatest fault has been 
that I have stuck to them after so many and persevering efforts to make me 
clear out.  As for what you say about the price the Donnans pay for 50 acres 
it is cheaper than this at $70 and moreover you will recollect that I pay 
all the Taxes and I possess only about 70 Acres that is the cleared land and 
last year I think it amounted to about $15 and the road tax 10 dollars.  I 
have likewise to maintain 2 families so far as the Farm grows it and his 
services on it will amount to little.  If I were to take this 5 year lease 
this I presume would cut me off from any farther claim upon our agreement 
before I came here.  I have no doubt but he is perplexed about our affairs 
as he has changed his mind or made to do it. Honesty would have been the 
best policie I have no doubt but I must have lost my temper that has been 
done under less provocation, such brotherly epithets as a YANKIE MASHOLD 
liberally applied for only wanting the fulfilment of my engagements is not 
calculated to make a good temper in me.  What right has his wife to accuse 
me of obstinacy unless she knows my affairs better than I do myself.  I may 
have lost or I may have gained but that is my own affair. True it is I was 
offered what they say for my sheep and what of that and I got a good price 
for my wethers but if I was to take their advice I would have sold them at 
half the price I got for them.  What of that.  They had not the loss of the 
one and the gain of the other.  Possibly she wishes again to make the 
impression that **** her so long that I could not take care of myself.  I 
believe I will be always two hot or two cold two tall or two small for her.  
I heard it whispered by the Girl at the time or after the time we made an 
agreement that they were to make a will.  Have you learnt any thing of it. 
They have not yet made their appearance here and do not expect them for a 
long time.  Duncan has not made me a visit altho I expected him.  I think I 
mentioned in my last that I had a letter from Peter at the 19th May last 
when they were all well but of no great importance otherwise.  We are 
through hay-making 2 days ago crops *** thermometer here the days you 
mention but a good breese of wind.  Today it is 89.  Have a good apearance 
of grain and potatoes but the prospect of low prices in every thing, Butter 
and Cheese excepted.  Some degrees here have sold on Contract at 6c a lb and 
to be taken off hand once a month.  I should mention that the offer D made 
in April in respect to you was that you were to get the Sheep after being 
shorn. There was of them about 57 and 20 Lambs.  Salvenous(?) got 7 old 
sheep.  I got 40 and 20 lambs which came to $50 by old Sheep at 1 dollar and 
the Lambs 50c a piece, 5 dollars off for pasture which nakes $45, add 5 
dollars which I owed you is $50 which I gave a note to D for which I expect 
you were to get as belonging to you.  If I understand right you are paid $15 
less than you had a right to.  In the hope of hearing from you soon 
  I remain your loving Brother 
   Henry 
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2009 
                                             Peterboro, 8th Novr 1847 
  Dear Sister 
 
  I have received yours of the 29th October.  I meant you should sell the 
potatoes and apples to some of your Grocer acquaintances (or order them to 
a Commission Agent if that was not convenient).  The boys would be useful 
enough to do what you mention.  I last week had 5 or six of them at our 
potatoes and the close looking after they required prevented me in replying 
to you sooner and of course McCartie will now be home but from what you say 
about him I should be glad to have a trial of him until next summer.  I 
believe his smallness was Mr Barnetts principal objection to him and I think 
were you to look out for Boat Master to pays Lenox Basin or Canastater with 
a letter to me he could easily find his way to Peterboro and come cheaper 
than in company with railway passengers.  Respecting the treatment he would 
receive you recollect you use to think that I was two indulgent to my boys 
but the way I should wish to use him or any one I have is as I would do my 
own if it were so.  Supose he came now I would send him to shool during 
winter or most of it.  The Box has not yet arrived but when it comes but 
when it does I see I shall have many comforts.  I should have thought James 
was the most unlikely person to be troubled with Tysick from his robust make 
but I fear he is not to be a long liver but this is wholly at the disposal 
of him who knows our ends all from the beginning. 
  I remain 
  Your Loving Brother 
   Henry Campbell 
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2010 
                                            Smithfield, 29th Feby 1848 
 
  Dear Sister 
 
  I duly received your letter giving account of the sale of the Apples and 
Potatoes which I am sorry troubled you so much but as I make you a present 
of them or their proceeds you will have occasion to regret your trouble the 
less, altho I have perfect confidence you would as cheerfully do it and did 
it on my account.  D's wife would not use any of the contents of the box of 
articles you sent me but to keep them untill I went upon my own place which 
is now likely to be soon as they have sold the Farm and they are to leave 
here some time after the canal opens for Florida.  The price is 21 dollars 
an acre about 5 or $600 to be paid down.  We advertised a joint sale on the 
3 Feby of both places.  He sold his privately and I have mine on hand but 
sold all the stock and utensils with the exception of about 260 Sheep which 
I will send to my own farm when the grass comes.  The horses I sold privately
since the sale at $130 as I do not intend to keep any thing but Sheep upon 
my place.  I will not need a Hired Man and I am not decided whether I will 
take up house that is live in my own house or board in the neighbourhood. 
  This brings me to say something about the boy and as we are all so much 
afloat I do not think it would be best for him to come untill farther 
developments take place.  They all advise me that he would be more trouble 
than advantage.  I had a letter from Duncan some time ago when he was well. 
I saw your letter to Daniel and was happy to hear of their welfare in 
Scotland excepting Peter Robinson.  I presume Ian Anderson has given up any 
design of America.  Daniel has complained of his back this winter and he got
some aditional hurt of being thrown over out of the Cutter but I believe is 
now nearly about his usual state of health.  Within a day or 2 we have some 
snow but during the winter we have scarcely had any and the season has been 
mild beyond usual which notwithstanding the suposed scarcity of fodder is 
tolerably plenty now.  You mention several deaths as communicated by Anns 
letter which I thought were dead long ago all of which I remember perfectly 
well.  They have all lived to a great age.  May God enable us all to number 
our days that we may be enabled to applie our hearts unto wisdom, the wisdom 
that enables us to be united to him by Faith through Jesus Christ our hope 
and Redeemer.   Please write me soon if you have time and I wish you would 
take more pains upon your letters to point and score them and read them all 
over before you close your Letter.  Disconnected words or sentences spoils 
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				I remain 
					Your Loving Brother 
						Henry Campbell 
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2011 
                                            Smithfield, 11th May 1848 
 
  Dear Sister 
 
  I duly received yours of the 10th March on the 3rd of April.  I moved with 
my Sheep (some less than 300) on my place or rather farm and are boarded in 
the neighbourhood very comfortably at 9/- a week but not washing or mending. 
I have not yet got down my clothes and furniture as they have not yet gone and 
will not till the end of the month or beginning of June.  My bargain with him 
was that I was to have everything on the farm excepting the Sheep and Milk 
dishes and he reserved for themselves the 2 best rooms and its furniture. 
From what I know already this is not done but only as far as they find it 
convenient indeed this was expected for not one engagement he ever made with 
me was performed or implemented but so far as he thought proper.  But just 
before coming down here in looking into the large box I brought with me from 
Scotland I found Peters letter containing an extract of Daniels letter to 
him, just as I said offering us the farm s [...] as we could live by it as I 
formerly mentioned to you.  You before I wrote him had engaged at the Bridge 
of Allan and when I wrote him accepting his terms it was on my own account and 
in answer to my acceptance he did not expect you but urged me by every 
agreement he could to come forward.  I have no doubt but it was with a view to 
shake himself clear of this engagement.  He has sold his farm.  To this I have 
no objection but I have aright to a remuneration for its loss.  I believe you 
are nearly right in saying he asked me nearly double that he had sold it at 
Best notwithstanding it is well sold and could not get the price for it for a 
number of years past.  A third of it is swamp with the timber cut off and is 
not worth above 10 dollars an acre and he will get more interest a year than 
he has made off it for many years.  Acre for Acre my place is worth more than 
his but there is 11 acres he has not yet sold for 5 acres of that being wood 
he may get from 25 to 30 dollars an acre for it and the other 6 swamp worth 
about 10 dollars.  The number of acres sold is about 125.  It would or rather 
could not make it pay me at the price he has sold it at.  On my farm I have 
not a beast but Sheep and and has been employed since I came on principally in 
making and repairing fences as they were in poor condition.  I have not even a 
horse and all my tillage is the Garden but I have some thoughts upon going to 
live in my house as I will have my cloths wool and in and by which means it 
will be safe.  I will have to buy a stove and some other things.  I do not 
know that I will have a great deal to do through the summer and harvest as I 
mean to pasture the whole and sell off all my stock in the fall.  In the month 
of March I paid a visit to Duncan at Caledonia when he was well.  I staid 
about 8 days.  It is a fine countrie and well farmed.  Rochester is a large 
****** place.  I am happy to hear you are so well employed but do not like to 
learn that you have to wait 14 days and to be at a moments notice. 
  We had some newspapers from Peter of late but I am greatly in arrears with 
him in correspondence as well as with our other friends in Britain which I 
hope I will be able soon to amend.  The European Commotions have been of late 
so interesting and nothing less than the overthrow of the British Government 
and Constitution will please our envious countriemen.  There was a greater 
disappointment here with our rabid slave holding republicans than the failure 
of the great bubble the C [...] meeting at London on the 10th April but I feel 
Ireland will not be so well advised altho ultimately it will be peaceful, I 
hope.  Your quotation of Gerrit Smith is superfluous.  I wish you and I could 
keep the Sabbath and every other commandment like Mr S..  It will not do to 
follow the interpretations that Slaveholders and their polycats have put on 
the Bible and taboo them politicks because they conflict with the villany of 
the opressor and his apologist heard a very religious man ask if it would be 
constitutional to abolish Slavery, thus putting the Constitution above the 
Bible altho I do not believe that either of them upholds but reprehends 
Slaverie but Gerrit Smith thank with our Saviour that it is lawful to do good 
even on the Sabbath and thus a deal of well meaning persons are more afraid 
that Mr S. may go wrong than that they may do right themselves.  I was shocked 
when at nephew Duncans last his wife was such a strict Sabbatarian that she 
would not go the length of the ancient families which on the Sabbath would 
pull out of a pitt their ox or ass.  As our Saviour relates on a ***** from 
Slaverie proving how much modern Pharisees are superior anent auld. 
  I remain 
  Your Loving Brother 
   Henry Campbell