Letter from Dorinda to Hamilton R. Gamble (1827)

Clarksvill April 1st 1827

Sir i wish to inform that Mrs felps is trying his best to keep me a slave; he has got me out of the county where i connot do nothing for my self and he says that he will keep me out of your reach if possible. therefore i hope you will do the more for me. for i believe that he will not apear to court from what i can see and does not intend to fetch me unless he is made to do so. and you know that he was ordered by the court not to fetch me out of the county where the court sets. And he told the court that he was going to take me to Lualin Browns about 9 miles from St Louis and when he got me there he forced me on to Clarksvill where he has kep me ever sense and said i shold not go back to St Louis untill spring

Durinder

Mrs Hamilton Gamble
St Louis

Clarksville Mo
April 1st
12p [unclear]

Dorinda April 1827
recd after suit was dismissed