
If I have been tardy in seeming rembrance of you & your deserts it is because during the past decade of years I have been myself among the breakers; and clouds, tempests, & darkness have been about me; but now I once more see the sun.
I beg your acceptance of the enclosed & though but trifling, it will nevertheless show what my feelings are & what more I would like to do.
You remember Wells—of Fowler & Wells Phrenologists. Through him & other of your friends, in Bolton, (though never having had the pleasure to meet you, personally) I have always felt that I knew you. Your good deeds to our country were during the war & under circumstances more trying and perilous than mine; which were before; & because of which, war came; for had Kansas been made a Slave State, there would never have been war: the Country would have become all Slave!—I was in the struggle to prevent Kansas being made a Slave State & my name must have been known to you in those days & familiar.
I am, dear friend Very Sincerely Yours, Thaddeus Hyatt