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to that ancient town and seat of justice of Wilkes county. 

 Of all the land in sight of the road, the traveller could 

 have truly said, what a country, if it had not been wan- 

 tonly and wickedly destroyed. There are a great many 

 fine gardens in this place, well filled with excellent fruit, 

 and ornamental shrubbery. Mr. Cleveland, an enter- 

 prising merchant and gentleman of taste, has done more, 

 probably, than any other individual, to introduce an ex- 

 tensive assortment of valuable fruit. He succeeds in 

 saving his apricots and plums from the ravages of the 

 curculio by planting trees in hen yards, or setting coops 

 under them at the proper time. Suitable as all this 

 county is to produce fine fruit, there is a criminal neg- 

 lect, upon the part of the planters, that they do not plant 

 orchards sufficient to feed themselves and all their 

 people. Solon Robinson. 



Letter to Leila Robinson 



[Ms. in Harry Robinson Sti'ait Papers, Gary] 



Charleston S. C. Apl. 13 '51. 

 Miss Leila Robinson. 



My Dear Daughter. Your letter of Feb. 1^* was sent 

 to Tallahassee & from there forwarded to me at Augusta 

 Geo. where I rec^ it two weeks ago, but have had no 

 time, or rather have not taken time to answer it, but I 

 have sent home papers continually to let you know where 

 I was & that is about all that is necessary for you to 

 know ; for if I am sick, which is but very seldom, you dont 

 want to know it, and if I am dead you will know it soon 

 enough. 



I am well pleased my daughter with this letter; you 

 have greatly improved in penmanship and composition. 

 In both I hope you will grow still more perfect. You 

 must study punctuation, for upon the misplacing of a 

 comma sometimes the whole sense of a sentence is 

 changed. 



I hope while you are studying the stars you wont for- 



