RKBP-493

[Illegible] 4th 1858

Dear Sir

Your favour of recent date did not reach me till yesterday I am sorry to say it finds me out of funds but I have a promise of one hundred dollars this month and if I get it will send you the amount due at once

You should have been paid long since had not this been to me a season of disappointm ent in every respect out of over one hundred ones of grain sowed I have not gathered a bushel

I had fully intended to have been at your place this fall (Just [part?]) and have seen your nursery but have at present nothing to do with hope to be better off on other year with much respect

Yours J Gillott

[Partial postmark] GHT DEC

O Lovejoy [illegible]

Dr John A Kennicott West Northfield Cook Co Ill

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