September 8, 1851

TO: Mr W W Sears, N C Moore County, Carthage

September 8the 1851
State of North Carolina Cumberl
and County Dear Brother I take the
oppertunity of writing you a few lines
to inform you that we are all well and
hope that these few lines may reach
and find you all Enjoying the same
like blessing I have wrote you two or
three letters of which I never got any
answer I hope it will not be so when
you get this one I am not done my
mill yet But I hope that I shall
pretty soon accomplish it if the
watter will get out of my way I would
be very glad to see you down here
for a week or two if you want any
mony you will do well to come down
next Saturday or Sunday and
work abou a couple of weeks it
seems dealacious hard that every
boddy does try to work against me
there Very Best ?arrett come down
here and becase I would not give
him forth cents a day he left and
people Down this way thinks that
I am obbliged to have hands and
for that Reason they think that they
will get all that I am to get for the mill

But I will Show them Better I will Do
Every lick of work mysef first Daniel
Smith is all the help I have had yet
I am Done getting all my timber and
it is halled to the place I have Dug
out the Seaat and have got
the foundation framed and part
of the Rest I want you to come down
now and stay tull it is finished so th
at you will see what A nice mill I can
Build if I had A Bout A couple of
hands I would get Done in A Bout
A couple of weeks if it had not raind
So much tell William Warner
tht I have Bought a buggy and
have got a job in Brunswick
County that I am going to in A Bout
3 or 4 weeks at the farthest
tell him if he is a going off with
me then he had better stay at home
and fix himself By that time and
if he is not A going he had Better
Come Down when you Do if you come
tell him maybe he had as well come
down A Saturday Any how and you
too if you can leave your fodder
I Shall think write hard of you if you
Do not come after telling if i would

get a job you would help me
A Bout it Aunt Rainy Dowdy
said that Mss Sears told uncle
Daniel Medlins wife that She heard
that Jane was under the Doctor
But if She gets under the Doctor
it will be the first time since she
had the Measles She has been as well
all the since you seen her as she
was when you saw her
I want you to Send me the Reason
that you would not come down
to help me that is if you donot
come this time The Reason is asked
why you Dident Come Down
it Becaus your price was not large
Anough was it Becaus you thought
that if you would Come Down and
work you would not get Any pay
for it was it Bacaus you thought
that would not give you as much
as some of the Rest and you thought
that you could Do as much work
and Do it Better than the Rest or
was it Bacause it was too hot to
work or was it Becaus you were
too lazy to work Yours Henry T Collins