Bridgeport ct Aug 11th 1866
	Dear Folks at home,
		It is one
week since I wrote to you, Monday this week
I went down town, and looked Wheeler 
and Wilsons Sewing machine Factory, it
is an extension affair I was very much
interested. Tuesday I also spent in looking
over Bridgeport, I went to the Sound and
waded out in, at low tide,
Wednesday I tooke the boat to see New York
I staid three days and looked the
city through and through, I would
take the street cars ago up one street
5 or 6 miles or less and then return on
an other, I went into a good many
manufactories and stores, and saw a
good deal of City life, My whole expence
was about $8,
     I thought some of stopping in New York
and purtly engaged a room, but after
thinking it over I concluded that I should 
enjoy life, better in a smaller city, there
is to much noise and excitement, there
there are to many people. things are to crowded
to suit my temperament, I like Bridgeport
very well If I could get in here anywhere
there are 4 or 5 extensive watch shops
here, Houses are very dear here. they ask
$2500, for the cottage opposite the house
you used to live in 1/4 acre land
		room
not much more land in it than you have now.
Uncle asks $6000. for his place of 20. acres
ground one third covered with stones, the west
is the place for farming, if uncle put the same
amount of labor on a western farm that he
puts on this he would raise three times as much
my health is pretty good, my liver is better than
it has been for along time, I like the air here.
I had some clams to day for dinner, they
tasted good,
     Uncle wants to sell out so he will not
have to work so hard he is pretty well broke down

     I did not see anything of the
cholera in New York, only one man on the
park was taken suddenly sick he might have
had it, I saw [illegible in original] a man who had
just been taken up out of the water, his face
was pretty eaten away. he was an awful
looking object, he had a very high forehead
and was well dressed
I am learning a good deal and shall
be better [illegible in original], settle down into business
business is full as good east as it
is west. (Renseleer Couches daughter
Cornelia says, is dead she died about
4 weeks ago. she was an [illegible in original] only child)
I put in news as it comes along.
Manufacturing is very brisk now
     I went to the Episcopal Church
last sunday. the north church is being
repaired, the singing was excellent.
they pay one lady one thousand dollars a
year who sings. Bridgeport is a wealthy place

I do not think you better sell your
property in Three Oaks for the present.
     I shall do something next week, I may
go out into the manufacturing district north
of here and stop at some of the small towns
and travel for a time an if I do I shall
probably return west to set up permanently
and I may get a place in Bridgeport
if I d I shall need [illegible in original] friends I have got
to set up with,
     Uncle got a good wife. his boy
is very much like him, his daughter 
is the most [tonguey?] thing I ever saw
She like her [illegible in original] can talk and eat
at the same time,
she is a [illegible in original] awake piece
supper is ready
				Fred R. Warren