RKBP-963

Illinois Central Rail Road Co. GENERAL FREIGHT DEPARTMENT Chicago Mch 14 1861

My Dear Doctor

I have not seen anything of you here this winter as yet. As the time is approaching for cathring about Spring planting if you should [underlined] be in the city & could find time to run down to Collage Grove with me I think I should probably get enough [illegible] to make it an object. The great difficulty is that I have got such a peculiar place that I hardly know what it is best to get while you could tell at a glance & [illegible] settle the matter. I am not up on the ridge where it is high & all scared, but just back on the level prairie with a black [illegible] [illegible] for 10 or 12 inches & [illegible] under that & there is not a tree on the place except these I got from you & a few maples that are over

probably all winter killed_ If you cannot make it convenient I must try & get away long enough to run out & see you [underlined] & try & get along that way but I inferred [illegible] your last that you intended to be in [illegible] before springWould chine be any use in setting nut dwarf pears & apples or any other kind of fruit tree on such a place or I have mentioned Your Very Truly F. Fairman