Dear Lewis,
I should have written to you long ago, but one thing or another has prevented, and recently, quite a severe attack of sickness.
We are very dull here at this time—the question of union & disunion seems to be settled, at least for the present by the compromises and I think the agitation to the North can not disturb it.
The death of the atty Gen’l of this State has given his place to an old friend of ours Robt J Brent1—who is a good fellow and needy
I have an idea of going to England in the spring, to look after some old estate—have you any business there?
The accounts you sent I called to the attention of Grafton & he promised to have them collected.
Any thing I can do for you will be promptly attended till the middle of May, when I can arrange matters [illegible] for England.
business is dull here, and many of us at the bar are not progressing
My office is worth little or nothing.
write to me at yr leisure.
With sincere friendship
Yours,
Z. Collins Lee
Geo. W. Lewis Esq
Baltimore Feby 17th 1851
1. Robert James Brent (1811-1872) of Baltimore, was born in Opelousas in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. He was a Democrat and a lawyer and served as the Maryland state attorney in 1851. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1860. He died in Baltimore.
Source: Digital reproduction of original, copy courtesy of Rev. Betty Works Fuller, Corpus Christi, Texas
Transcribed by Colin Woodward and Judy Hynson, 2016 October 21
