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Artas, Nov. 21st, 1852

Dear Sister Almira,

This is now the third time that I write
home, but I have not yet heard from there, and if you do not write
before recieving my last letter, shall not for some weeks, perhaps,
to come, but hoping that you are all well, I let it rest so, till I hear.

I did not intend to write till the next mail of Dec. 10th, but as Bro.
Albert Minor, is unexpectedly obliged to leave immediately for Amer-
ica, he will carry letters for you with him. He leaves here tomor-
row morning, to go to Jerusalem, and leaves Jaffa on Wednesday. (The oc-
casion of his leaving is this, Last week he recieved a letter stating
that his uncle had died and left him 1500. dollars, on condition of
his personally appearing for it. In a former will he had given
him 11,000. dollars, but before he died, tho sick but four days he made
a new will, & gave him, so little, merely on account of his religious views.
Also the letter stated, that his Grandfather was very feeble, and said that if
A. would come & see him once more, & stay 3 weeks that he would give
him 3,000. dollars, & if he would stay till he died, which would be soon
he would give him much more.) His grandfather sent to have him come
by the swiftest conveyance, & will pay all his expenses. He lives in
Roxbury, Conn. & I should love to have him Albert come to see you, as he
can tell you so much more than I can write. If any of our friends
would like to see him, enough to be at the expense going, the route
is by Worcester to New Haven, and from there on the New York road as far
Bridgeport; there take the Housatonic road, to New Milford,
which is 7 miles from Roxbury. He will write to you when he
arrives there, & will give you much information & Father can write to him. Perhaps, better not refer to what I have said of his circumstances.

The reason I did not write, the last mail, was, that I thought to
wait till we had got into our winter quarters, & got fixed down
nice, & things arranged. There has been a new house built here
this fall but it is not quite done yet. They will commence to plas-
ter tomorrow, & then the floors are to be laid. The plaster that
they use here dries quickly, so that we can go in soon after it is done.