Augusta County: Joseph C. G. Kennedy to Alexander H.
H. Stuart, March 22, 1870
Summary:
Joseph C. G. Kennedy writes to Alexander H. H. Stuart about his plans to enter
the real estate business. Kennedy served as Superintendent of the United States
Census, 1850 and 1860.
Hon Alex H H Stuart Staunton Va
22 Mar 1870.
Washington
My dear Mr Stuart.
I am charmed with your letter of the 14th on many accounts,
and would have replied at once but the want of a suitable office room has kept
me hung up by the "eyelids." - I have made up my mind to embark in the Real
Estate business and shall hope in the course of time by steady progress to build
up a house of some importance. I am expecting to obtain a good room in the Av (Pa) near Willard during the present
week but the Landlord is so peculiar a man that nothing certain can be known
until permission is had. The name of our firm will be K & Son. We
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will be most happy to form a business connexion with T. L. & Co and would be glad of an early
moment to have your views on the subject.
with best comp to [unclear: G Mary S.]
Sincerely your friend
Jos C G Kennedy
I have a gratefully expressed letter from Mr. Gallaher at Berlin, Pruss. who desires some letters to persons at points further South in Europe but I am sorry to have to write him that those I knew have mostly gone to another world. Hon Alex H H Stuart Staunton
