FORMS OF BUSINESS

We are in usual health, and I hope this note will find your family
all well. With kind regards to Mr. Webster, and love to childkeu, I
remain,                   Your Sincere Friend,
HELE    D. WELL.
To MRS. MaY BENsoN,
- Michigan Ave., Chicago.
Requesting Settlement of Account.
MEmpis, TENN., Oct. 9, IS-.
HInAM BAXTER, ESQ.,
Nashville, Tenn.,
Sir:
I enclose your account. I shall feel obliged by your
settlement at an early date, as I have several heavy payments to make.
Trusting Vt you will excuse my troubling you, I am,
Yours Respectfully,
DELOS HARTWELL.
Reply to the Preceding.
NAsImLLE, TEsNN., Oct. 12,18-.
DELos HARTWELL, R SQ.,
Memphis, Tenn.,
Sir:
As I am unable to send you the money for settlement
of our account, without inconvenience, I enclose my acceptance for
thirty days, which I trust you will be able to use.
Yours Truly,
HIRAM BAXTER.

Urging Payment of Rent.

MR. D. P. TIOYT,

CoLnuxus, 0., March 11, 18-.

I have waited patientay for your convenience in
the payment of rent for the house you are at present occupying. As,
however, you have now been my tenant for four months without
meeting any of the payments, which were to be made monthly, I feel
obliged to remind you of the fact that there are now $80 due to me.
Trusting that you will give the subject your immediate attention, I
Yours Truly,
WEBSTER GREEN.
Letter to a Pioneer Settler In the West.
ToLzDo, OHio, July 19, 18-.
MR. MARTIii FuLLmR,
Dear Sir:
I take the liberty, though a stranger, of address-
ing you a few lines relative to the inducements for new settlers in
your section of the country, having been recommended to do so
through our mutual friend, Artemas Carter.
As I have sold out my business in this city for ten thousand
dollars, I am anxious to invest the proceeds in a large farm in a

young State, feeling satisfied that a new country, like that you are now
in, offers attractions for young and energetic men not found in the
old cities.
You will much oblige me by giving information concerning climate,
soil, water, timber, and other inducements for settling in your vicinity.
Trusting that doing so will not seriously trouble you, and that  may
hear from you soon, I remain,
Yours Very Respectfully.
CHAS. W. CANFIELD.
Answer tu the Foregoing.
But STvn  em, Kamss, Aug. 15, 18-.
Ma. us. W. CANI'EL.n,
Toledo, Ohio,
Dear Sir:
Your welcome letter was received yesterday. I can
assure you that I will be only too happy to furnish you all the inform-
ation you desire relative to the prospects in this portion of Uncle
Sam's domains.
I have now been two years In this place, and I can truly say that
these years have been the ha'piest of my life. True, we have
endured some hardships incident to pioneer life; but the glorious
freedom from the frivolities of fashion, and the formalities of aristo-
cratic life, common to the old towns in the East, together with the
pleasure one takes in making new improvements, all have combined
to render our family perfectly delighted with the country.
For a quarter of the money in your possession, you can purchase all
the land you will desire to cultivate; the remainder you can loan
hereabouts, on bond and mortgage, at good interest.
The climate here is healthy and invigorating; the soil good, with
running streams in sufficient abundance to water most of the farms.
Plenty of building material and fuel can be had in the timber
skirting the streams; and the prospect for the ultimate opening of the
land in this section to a ready market, through several lines of railway
now in contemplation, is very flattering. At present, however, the
nearest station to my farm, on the stage route, is Chesterfield, thirty-
four miles distant, at which place I will take gre at pleasure In meeting
you, with my team, at any time you may appoint.
A very excellent farm, adjoining mine, can be bought for five dollas
($5) per acre. One corner of the land is crossed by a never-failing
stream, with considerable timber along the same.
You will have to rough it for a little while after you arrive; but the
neighbors will all turn out to aid in getting up your log house, after
which you will be at home 11 under your ownr vine and fig tree."
We have two rooms in our house, and till your house'is completed
we will give one of them to your family. It will seem a little odd
at first, for a fashionable family of six or eight persons to occupy one
room, with wolf and deer skins forquilts and coverlets; but, by-and-
by, when the young ladies find they are in just as good style as any-
body else, they will dismiss their fastidiousness, and think it jolly fun.
These privations, that we at first endure, are necessary, perhaps, to
enable us to appreciate the fine homes which we all expect to have In
the good time coming. Hoping to have the pleasure of welcoming
yourself and family as neighbors, I am,
Yours Very Truly,
MARTIN FULLER.

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