{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p3", "byline": ""}
and you know that his property was worth some
thing very considerable for he had fine estate
which was soldc to pay his debts and the remain
der he lost on horse race but it was the opinion
of every body at the time that he would have
won the race if the horse he ran against had not
been to fast for him. never saw man, and
they doctors all said so, observed directions and
took medicine better than he did, and he said he
had as leave drink Cruel as wine it it only had the
same taste and he would as soon take .allap as
eat beaf stakes if it had the same relish, but
poor soul he will never eat no more and now
you have not a living relation in the world except
myself and your two cousins who was killed IN
the last war ant dwell on this mournfull subject
and shall seal this letter with black seaIng-wax
and put on it your uncles coat of arms 50 beg
you not to break the seal when you open the
letter and donte open it till three or four days after
you receive it by which time YOU will be prcpal-
ed for the mournfull tidings when you come to
this place stop and do not read any more till my
next.


your affcctioate Aunt PEGGY OWENS.


z. s. don't. write me again till you receive
this