John Tyler, Sherwood Forest, Charles City County, Virginia, to Alexander Gardiner, New York, New York

Sherwood Forest
June 28. 1849
My Dear Sir:
I wrote you a week ago
and fearing a miscarriage of my letter
I deem it best to write again to request
that you will send me without delay, the
post being uncertain, a draft for $1500
to replace the draft falling due about the
13th July.
We rejoiced in receiving the letter from
David which was written to your mother
and which Julia now sends you. I have
more than once entertained a wish that all my
woods could be in the form of timber trans
ferd to California. You will do well with
your shipment of the House and waggons.
The mail of yesterday brought us also
intelligence of the flight of your mother
and M. from Saratoga. I desire myself
if any village to the North escapes the
cholera. It has not yet visited this cty
but we are prudent in our diet and
all other observances. The scourge prevails
quite badly in Richmond & Norfolk. I am
urging forward my harvest and a fine one

it is. At greater leisure I shall write to you
more fully. For the present adieu -
Yrs Truly
J. Tyler

A Gardiner Esqr.

Swineyards Va
June 28

J. Tyler

Alexander Gardiner Esqr.
Clerk U. S. C. Court
New York
City