
          reach you before you sail I hope to hear from you & have 
your direction also inform me how I am to direct the live oaks 
[&?] Adaline is yet up the country & I do not expect her home 
untill [until] late in Dec. [December]. Madam was very ill in August but has 
measurably recovered Mrs. Donsler was also long sick is now likely 
to regain her usual state of health. Who of your acquantance [acquaintance] are 
Dead or alive I can hardly inform you but Mrs. Nevit & Mrs. J. Miller 
counts two that is Dead & Mrs. Fitzgerald counts one that is alive 
you know the old saying that the Devil is good to his [crossed out: illegible] 
owne [own]. But to be serious on the occasion there has been a great  
number of Deaths this Fall & has not as yet come down to usual number 
for this season of the Year. I had neglected to say Edwin has not had 
the Feavor [Fever] since last Fryday [Friday] a week tomorrow & this Day is the first 
that he has attempted to go to the Store. The Countee [County] appears 
to have made a stand as tho [though] determined to grow no more for this 
year my deputy. Doct. Cutter states the flowers to be Male some  
have not sprouted but yet appear to be as fresh & lively as ever, the  
young ones as the Negroes would say [tan?] so & neigther [neither] grow 
nor die. As the minister says by the Irish, the damned Yankees are 
so thick that there is no living for them very little in Market & that 
little very dear & to make it all of a peace very miserably poor 
Beef 12 1/2 cents Veal & pork 18 3/4 fouls 37 1/2 to 50 Ducks 75 & Turkies 175.65 
& all of the very worst quallity [quality] [crossed out: illegible] Cotton & Rice has made the 
Planters all rich but those in Savannah not engaged in that way 
poor however we must look for better times when Cotton becomes 
cheaper & Provisions cheaper & plentier & then again when I draw 
that 100,000 Dollars things will be wonderfully changed & enable 
me to remove to the land of Cannaban you know & bid adue [adieu]
        