HENRY JAMES MORRIS, Toronto C.W.

    Henry James Morris in care of Wm. George Blunt, Centre st., 2
    doors from Elam.

This sad letter made a mournful impression, as it was not easy to see how her deliverance was to be effected.  One feature, however, about this epistle afforded much satisfaction, namely, to know, that James did not forget his poor wife and child, who were in the prison-house.  Many months after this first letter came to hand, Mrs. Dr. Willis, one of the first ladies in Toronto, wrote on his behalf as follows: 

    TORONTO, 15th June, Monday morning, 1857.

To MR. STILL, DEAR SIR:—­I write you this letter for a respectable young man (his name is James Morris), he passed through your hands July of last year (1856), and has just had a letter from his wife, whom he left behind in Virginia, that she and her child are likely to be sold.  He is very anxious about this and wishful that she could get away by some vessel or otherwise.  His wife’s name is Lucy Morris; the child’s name is Lot Morris; the lady’s name she lives with is a Mrs. Hine (I hope I spell her name right, Hine), at the corner of Duke street and Washington street, in Norfolk city, Virginia.  She is hired out to this rich old widow lady.  James Morris wishes me to write you—­he has saved forty dollars, and will send it to you whenever it is required, to bring her on to Toronto, Canada West.  It is in the bank ready upon call.  Will you please, sir, direct your letter in reply to this, to a Mrs. Ringgold, Centre street, two doors from Elam street, Toronto, Canada West, as I will be out of town.  I write this instead of Mr. Thomas Henning, who is just about leaving for England.  Hoping you will reply soon, I remain, sir,

    Respectfully yours,

    AGNES WILLIS.

Whether James ever succeeded in recovering his wife and child, is not known to the writer.  Many similarly situated were wont to appeal again and again, until growing entirely hopeless, they would conclude to marry.

Here it may be remarked, with reference to marrying, that of the great number of fugitives in Canada, the male sex was largely in preponderance over the female, and many of them were single young men.  This class found themselves very acceptable to Irish girls, and frequently legal alliances were the result.  And it is more than likely, that there are white women in Canada to-day, who are married to some poor slave woman’s fugitive husband.

Verily, the romantic and tragic phases of the Underground Rail Road are without number, if not past finding out.

Scarcely had the above-mentioned nine left the Philadelphia depot, ere the following way-worn travelers came to hand: 

PERRY SHEPHARD, and ISAAC REED, Eastern Shore, Maryland; GEORGE SPERRYMAN, alias THOMAS JOHNSON, Richmond; VALENTINE SPIRES, near Petersburg; DANIEL GREEN, alias GEORGE TAYLOR, Leesburg, Virginia; JAMES JOHNSON, alias WILLIAM GILBERT and wife HARRIET, Prince George’s county, Maryland; HENRY COOPER, and WILLIAM ISRAEL SMITH, Middletown, Delaware; ANNA DORSEY, Maryland.