W. G. Greene to Richard Yates

OFFICE OF THE

Tonica & Petersburg R. R. Co.

W.G. Greene, Pres.

Jas. Berdan, Treas. & Sec.

W. T. Beekman, Supt.

Wm. Bacon, Gen'l Agt.

Home Aug 8th 1861

Dear Yates

Your kind favour of the 31st ult. was recd yesterday & I hasten to reply so far as I can [Nult?] was here last Sunday & we were talking over Greenview matters &c he said he did not know whether Engle had colleted anything for the Rents of not said he had collected scarsely nothing for a long time but that he had about $100. of Greeneview money on hand & that he had a notion to send it to you I saw Strout last week he says that our Mason city [Tust?] is all right but that owing to Eliots injunction (which is not yet disolved) he had not yet collected enough to pay himself lacked about $800. but I think he has kept the Debts in as good a shape as possible Tallula is not doing much but our

debts there are all good I think we can get some money from it this fall. I have got Strout to promise to assist us in trying to get T. B. Hall to recant our Trade with him I hope we can succeed I am pressed all most out of my life financially just think of it I have never recd recd one dime on my salary not even one cent to wards my travling expences & I have in the last year paid for $5000. constuction bonds ($1500 & [illegible] Cash) & near $600. to Beekman Tust last Mo. then to cap the Clilmax of the other day had to pay Marsh Ayes &c $241.24/100. In relation to going to Washington I have thought much on the subject before & I since I saw you last I will come up & see you soon for further consultation on that subject in the meantime study up some Lucrative position for me & I will see Lincoln and try & have justice done to my friends whether it is to me or not I remain yrs as ever W. G. Greene

W. G. Greene

asking appointment &c.