Metadata
Title
David E. Hale to Horatio Emmons Hale
Date
1830/1839-07-21
July 21 [1830s]
Subject
Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896
Medium
Manuscripts
Language
eng
Type
text
Collection
Sarah Josepha Hale Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Identifier
46-M-160
Rights
http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html
Text
Beaufort N.C. July 2[?]th
My dear Brother
You cannot conceive what pain
your letter gave me. Why did you not write
before if you needed the money? Why
did not you tell me that you needed
it so much? If I had known it; depend
upon it, I would have saved every cent of
my pay to send to you. As it is - I shall
pursue a strict course of economy for the
future & send all I can spare.
I send you fifty dollars - which is all
I have with me except about $[3?]. I have a
monthly pay due & I [DE: shall] will write to the pay
-master in Norfolk for it so that I can
send you fifty more in about eight
days.
Your affectionate Brother
D.E. Hale
P.S. I have thought best to send $20
in this letter & $30 in a letter to
my mother for you - Excuse [haste?]
DEH
My dear Brother
You cannot conceive what pain
your letter gave me. Why did you not write
before if you needed the money? Why
did not you tell me that you needed
it so much? If I had known it; depend
upon it, I would have saved every cent of
my pay to send to you. As it is - I shall
pursue a strict course of economy for the
future & send all I can spare.
I send you fifty dollars - which is all
I have with me except about $[3?]. I have a
monthly pay due & I [DE: shall] will write to the pay
-master in Norfolk for it so that I can
send you fifty more in about eight
days.
Your affectionate Brother
D.E. Hale
P.S. I have thought best to send $20
in this letter & $30 in a letter to
my mother for you - Excuse [haste?]
DEH