Scranton July 13th 1886

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Dear Brother

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Immediately after getting your letter about Dec 1st last I wrote to you directed Shuswap. Having heard nothing from you I don’t know as you got it.

I now write again addressing you both at Kamloops and Shuswap. For fear of merely repeating what I last wrote I will not write of myself till I learn if you received my last letter.

But will write in regard more particularly to yourself. Perhaps you have been already written to about the matter. A second cousin, a grandson of Uncle Wm Barlow has turned up at Brooklyn N.Y. and has got pedigree and genealogy on the brain and seems to think the Barlow and Rogers family worthy of being perpetuated in history and therefore proposes to write a Book of biographical sketches of the various branches of the family tree.

So please at your very earliest opportunity write the main incidents in your career of life from your earliest recollection, particularly after you set your face toward the setting sun. Your experiences in Frontier and Savage life, your various sojournings and places of abode and enterprises. Who knows but you may be the hero of our family branch but if you have no aspirations of that nature, write any how for our own gratification, and to help fill up the Book.

The cost of the Book will be $5.00, so if you have any curiosity for genealogy and ancestry send along your $5.00. Also please on a separate sheet write me whatever recollections, for mine are not very vivid or reliable, you may have of our Father and Mother, their birthplace and what year they removed to N.Y. State and what year Father settled at the old homestead and other occurrences before our remembrance that were narrated to us by our parents or others, and enclose all to me. I repeat Ada’s address 1115-41st Street Chicago. 

Truly your Brother

George