Lyle Branson Fawcett

“ I should like to have had Erasmus present at the wedding but thought his arrival rather uncertain, and therefore followed the promptings of my own heart which bids me use all haste.
Our business continues very fair the only difficulty we have is getting money – we have to shift the best we can and run our credit.
I received a letter from Willis yesterday three days old – he has begun operations in these new hours and from what a friend says, they will doo [sic] very well.
I have anxiously expected Erasmus for the last month – I have great need of him and intend taking him from Willis. ”

“ I am interested in a considerable quantity of land in the county of Kemper and have sent some goods there also, now if Ras was there I would feel more safe, and could often sell land that no one now knows the owner of . ”

“ Will is perhaps better fitted for the undertaking than probably any other man in the country of his age – he is a first rate salesman and in addition has that happy nack of suiting himself to those with whom he is Thrown, which of all other things most contributes to a mans succes, besides these he has a natural politeness That no person can wear out, and which always protects him from the too forward advances of the looser part of society while at the same time he retains that good opinion – he has most too strong an eye to the to the [sic.] ”