Letter to Ida from Stephen Barton, Spencer House, Cincinnati, 10 June 1866

Abstract

Letter to Ida from Stephen Barton, Spencer House, Cincinnati, June 10, 1866. The letter is four pages. The weather has been very hot. Mr. Ellsworth was in N.Y. and will probably call on Ida before long. Ellsworth left telegrams [?] June 2 when the Finigans [Fenians / Irish] first commenced raising the ruse[?] at Buffalo, NY. Ellsworth went as a special correspondent for the Cincinnati Enquirer and expected to go to Ogdensburg N.Y. and stay somewhere near there but Barton does not know where he is now. Today Ellsworth was in the telegraph office and asking for him but he was out at the time and did not get a chance to speak to him. Some of the messages from the Railroad fellows are 200 or 300 words long and he has got his share of them since he works the Buffalo line where all the railroad business is done. He is looking for other work he is not making much, only $60. He mentions Belle and asks Ida to ask her to answer his letter.