1818  15 Jan  Annapolis  

1062. Nathaniel White to his brother Cornelius, on various topics. Family matters. "Your ideas & practics as to society are, I must acknowledge, precisely mine four years since, but take my word for it & I speak from experience, they are very erroneous & uncomfortable. You have a very good opportunity of getting into society & the best society too & I sincerely hope you will improve it. The Almons, I am sure, will pay you every attention if you will allow them, & you have no idea of the importance to a young man of mixing in good society. I have been fortunate enough to be thrown into it & would not part with the advantages I have received from it for the fattest fortune in Nova Scotia. Mrs. Johnston writes me constantly on this subject. She says you are perfectly incorrigible." He asks him to send a fashionable surtout, either blue or brown. Holograph.

White Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 Vol. 953 No. 1062