An Old Letter

The Marietta Register, August 25, 1870

The following letter was found, blown about by the wind, in a yard on Fifth Street, one day last week - written over forty-eight years ago:

"Colonel Augustus Stone
Point Harmar

                         Willow Island, {W.Va.,} 28 Jan., 1822

Dear Colonel:

      This week we shall have completed the High Wines
for Mr. Hedge. So far I shall have done my duty. Yours,
if I mistake not, is to have the barrels here.

Very respectfully yours,
A. Henderson." 

Alexander Henderson was the father of the late George Henderson, who lived across the Ohio, just below Marietta. He was Cashier of the old Marietta Bank more than fifty years ago.