Transcribe Orton, James. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1856-08-09)

[written vertically at top and both sides- Ward dare I ask, so great a favor of a letter from you when you get stablished in a great Metropolis? I don't want our correspondence to cease My address will be Andover, Mass. I would not advise you to tarry at Newfoundland. I will tell you about it when we meet at Providence permit. If you come home via </u Boston >, I can see you. Oh how many associations spring out at the recollection of Boston & Hallifax & </u Whitehall > oc oc oc I would love dearly, to talk with you a day. I can only say in regard to my seeming mis fortune Thy will O Lord be done. Believe me Most sincerely yours </u Orton>} Lisle Broome Co. N. Y. Aug. 9th 1856 My </u dear, dear Ward

  Your very

kind note received last evening condemns me. I know </u now > that I ought to have written you before and am very sorry I did not.

The reason I failed to was

simply this: Mr Hunt as I wrote you last sent me a very encouraging reply - con- sequent on his interview with Mr Wadsworth. He stated in that that he would write me again I waited a few weeks and received another letter in which he said that he had not then been able to get a sight