Buffalo Ford Va
June the 5th, 1840
Paid 10
Mr. Samuel C. Gleaves
Glade Spring {WashingtonCty
Va
Buffalo Ford
5th of June 1840
Dear Samuel
I now take up my pen to let you know how we all are, not having anything else of importance to write, & believeing that you are at all times anxious to hear from us. Your old Grandmother is now very sick and has been for some time confined to her bed we have been looking several times for her last I am satisfied without an alteration for the better she cannot survive many days, She frequently asks for you & to know when you will be to see us and at times she thinks that is the month of August, knowing that the session will be out at that time, I should be glad if she could see you but I dislike to ask you to leave college at this time as you might be thrown back in your class, The rest of us enjoy good health the little boys ask about you very often
Cripple Creek was very high last week it washed off a great deal of fence for us & I believe has injured almost every mile on the Creek Swept Rosenbaums miller entire
We have got a post office established here Wythe is postmaster Mr. J. K. Bolton Mr. Kents storekeeper assistant PM you can now direct your letters to this place.
I have nothing new for you times are very hard here people oppressed for money
Wheat crops very promising & rye of no account, we have had so much rain lately that my corn is very foul
I want you to write more frequently & let us know how your clothes do, we have some made for you which you can have by the first opportunity
Farewell
J. T. Gleaves
S C Gleaves
PS Joseph Atkins just now told me that he seen you & that you were well
J. T. G.
The old Grandmother, Elizabeth Turk Gleaves, died July 15, 1840