“Mr. Brewer has arrived, and will take to Stockbridge some parcels, one of which is for Mrs. Ashburner.
“In haste, from your affectionate son,
“Cyrus.
“P.S.—I wish mother would make for me a black frock-coat (she knows the kind that I want) and a plain black stock.
“Perhaps you had better send me the $6 that you were to let me have.
“C. W. Field.”
On July 25, 1836, he writes to his father:
“I shall leave New York on Thursday evening the 11th of August, in the steamboat Westchester, which goes no further up the river than Hudson, and be at that place on Friday morning, the 12th, where I shall want to have some one to meet me and Mr. Goodrich with a good horse and wagon to take us immediately to Stockbridge.... I want to have some one be at Hudson rain or shine, and I would like to have you write to me and let me know who is coming, and where I shall find him if he is not at the wharf.... Mr. G. and myself will pay the expense of coming to Hudson.”
And in another letter:
“The fare in the steamboat to Hudson is only 50 cents.”
A month later, in a letter to his mother, dated New York, August 29th, he says: