Alexander_Brown-Nov.24,1854

Titus County Texas the 24 1854
November

Dear brother and sister, i again with pleasure take my pen in hand to inform you that myself and family are through the mercies of God sharing reasonable health also all the rest of the connections in this part of the world with the exception of Alfred his health is still bad and i think never will be better sometimes he is able to work a little and part of the time not able to do anything at all When this comes to hand i hope that it will find you all enjoying the like good health. I have some news to wright you the first is that I had a letter from J. F. Mitchell written on the fifteenth of last month informing me that him and family were well at that time and was living in Hempstead County, Arkansas only about one hundred and twenty five miles from where I live, that he had moved there last spring and had bought land at ten dollars and fifty cents pr acre he said he was well pleased with the country and thought that he could do very well there after he got fixed he said that he did not know where i was living or whether i was living at all until Cousin John W. Anderson called on him as he returned home John left my home on the second day of last month for home and stopped awhile in Arkansas amongst some of his acquaintances while there he found out where Michell lived and went to see him Michaell says that he will come and see me this winter and bring his wife with him he informs us that they have none children at all with them but their oldest son he was married and living in Georgia but he expected him in Arkansas this winter i wrote to him immediately after i received his letter and told him what you requested me to tell him i told him where you lived and where to direct his letter if he wished to write to you if you wish to wright to him you will direct your letter to Mine Creek Post Office Hempstead County Arkansas i received a letter on the nineteenth of this instant from Brother James informing us that he was well and family and has good health for two years. he says that he is doing verry well at least he is satisfied with what he is doing he says he is farming a little and trading a little and if he can do as well fo rthe next year or two as he has the last two years, he will be able to come back better off than when he left Missouri in point monitary affairs he says the D.B. Humes and family were well the last he heard from them that Day was farming some in the hill country and when not engaged in his farm he was mining some and reaming some, that Mary was making butter, selling milk, washing and sewing for the miners, and on the while her and the children was making more than a support. he says that he is truly glad that Mary has got away from that miserable place in Missouri. She is now where she can get a support for her family and her children can see and learn something. he says that they are doing much better than they did in Missouri and i am truly glad to hear it notwithstanding they are a long ways from me where i never expect to see one of them in this world again. I do sincerely hope that they may continue to do well while they live. Mr. Isaak Warren arrived at my house on Sunday evening last in good health and appeared almost like meeting kinfolks. He has given me more general satisfaction about what has transpired in our old neighborhood since I left there than any person that i have seen since i left he will remain with us a week or two he is not well pleased with the looks of our country having never before seen any southern lands i am not atall surprised that he would be right pleased after remaining her longer he may be better satisfied the climate and range please him verry well but he finds objection to the looks of the land. Ha Ha Cousin John bought land here before he left adjoining Brother Wm a tract of 320 acres of verry fine land he said that if he did not come back next fall he thought that he would send Cousin Wm to it or someone else. I received a letter last month from Cousin Wm R. Anderson informing us they were all well at that time and the connections. They were all well that they had had a verry bad crops year grain was scarce and high property reducing in value HH We have had a very great failure in crops in part of this country there is scarcely any corn made corn is worth one dollar per bushel Wheat one and a half per bushel. Flour $7 per hundred. Pork from five to eight cts per pd. Cotton from seven to eight cents per pd. We have made very light crops of cotton indeed i have not made more than one third as much pr acre as i have formerly done times will be much titer before this time next year their is a very heavy emigration to our country this fall and a grat deal of wealth the most of them going west and i am told that grain is scarcer in western Texas than in Eastern if it is i do not know what the emigrants will do if you want come and see our country for yourself tell boys to come and see it for themselves and see the difference though they have never seen anything but that old Frozen Missouri and they would be pleased with the country without remaining here some time and see the production of it boys come and see Sarah and the children join me in love to you and family wright and don’t be selfish about communication to us this is all the way we have of knowing anything about each other.
Your brother Mr. Brown to George Marshall
P.SP Isabella has a fine daughter two or three days old. I do not know what its name is if it has any she is doing pretty well

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