Having visited this section in search of a future home for our families, we have found you a friend that makes all of us desire to be your neighbor, and to become residents of your section of this country.
We go to look at other lands, and to ascertain the resources of other places, feeling that no people can extend to us a more cordial and generous hospitality than we have received here from you.
With the most heartfelt gratification for your reception and treatment during our sojourn with your family, please to accept our best wishes for the happiness of yourself and those composing your household.
W. W. W. Wood,
J. McF. Gaston,
[Names of all others composing the party.]
To Illm. Senor Lenenti Coronal Joaquim Lorenço Correa.
Jahu, November 8, 1865.
General W. W. W. Wood, Dom Gaston,
and other gentlemen, companions of the voyage: