Plummer Papers

To Jos E. Plummer (Son) From Jos E. Plummer

Jos E. Plummer

Dear Son

At last I enclose you a check for two hundred dollars and have one here for you of one thousand which I hope will suffice till Christmas I know WW at present pretty hard run as he has still 600 Bales of cotton up Red River which he has not on account of low water been able to get out and buying a number of Negroes & land of Mr. Donelson & luck has kept him busy in fact he has been compelled till now to be always from home and has exposed himself too much and I know of but few men that could have stood the travel & exposure he has undergone since last fall ----

I am truly glad to hear Elton is better and hope Mary will soon recover from her fatigue I have not delayed writing for want of the money but from a lazy languor on Sundays occasioned by fatigue and the miserable poor prospect of a cough throughout the section of country and now it is a dry as a lime Kiln and everything parched and drying most of corn not knee high & as spindling as straws and does not get out of Wilt at night we have considerable sickness among Negroes & I have from the heat full very heavy & dull

WW leaves for Memphis this Evening on Eclipse and will bear this to you no letters from girls got one with your, the morning from Mr. D all well & glad they are away from the heat for the weather is very hot indeed I would rejoice to see a good old fashioned rain so we could plant fields and work to some seeming advantage but no prospect

my love to Mary & Elton and family God bless & preserve

June 9,1858
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Jos E. Plummer

Contributed by Sylvi

University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections
Collection: Plummer Papers
Location: GA10
Caption: 9/21/1856 - 1858