TNGenWeb Project/TNGenNet, Inc., (a Tennessee nonprofit public benefit corporation). "The Howard-Smith Collection" Transcription copyright: 1998, by Mrs. F. A. Augsbury; all rights reserved. The originals are at the McClung Library in Knoxville. This file is in text format. Please use your browser's "back" button to return to the previous page. ********************************************************************************* To: James T. Gaines, Rogersville From: William Shields, Rogersville ---------------------------------------- Rogersville May 8th 1816 Friend James I am much pleased to hear that you are about to connect your self with the amiable Miss Fanny R_____ I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you and her this summer at your house, enjoying the sattisfactions of the married life. I presume she will much ornament your dwelling, and appear as well as be in reality, the finest piece of furnature about it. I would have been much pleased to have seen you at this place, but must leave this place with out that pleasure. So farewell Pleas receive the best wishes of you verry Sinnar(?) friend Wm. Shields