Fitzsimmons to ——, as well as I can recollect, March 24, 1865

Copy of a letter from J. R. Fitzsimmons to ——, as well as I can recollect,

Sir: We are getting on prosperously. We are to make the attempt after the 10th or 12th of April. Goodall furnishes plenty of money, and is gone to Kingston to get the boys ready there. We met in Hackett’s house, and in my place there are a great many who would join if you would come here and press them. If you do come we will pay you well for your trouble. I know you would not join us, but a great many say if you were here they would abide by what you would say; so do come. We will pay all your expenses and more too. If you say the word, forty or fifty of the young men of the township would join us. I will let you know all the scheme, if you come down, when I see you.

Yours truly,