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the cause of the running off later in the evening - So we were quietly left on the switch to wait for the Express at 2 1/2Sure enough, we were "ready and awaiting" & very glad to be taken in tow - it was after daylight when I arrived & rode up in the omnibus - Mr. Davis was a very kind escort-. & I had no trouble except for this fact that I had given so much trouble to this kind household, for they sent to the depot & the carriage waited until 9 o'cl But of course, I could not help it - there seems to be a
fatality in my coming here in a decent & orderly manner. I was glad of a very short nap after my arrival, for I got no sleep last night scarcely.
I found all well except Miss Milly who has the jaundice, but is a great deal better and goes about - Maggie has improved very much, & has a good appetite - Mrs Mordecai will not let her work - so much. Mary Pettigrew has been here this morning, & we walked together a short distance - she wrote to Rebecca last night -
Mrs Mordecai sends her love & says she went down town yes-
terday & she could get nothing in the way of a second best bonnet – She thinks it would be far cheaper for you to send to Balt. for one – there the prices are from $6 to $8 – while ribbon here is from 75¢ to $1.50 – From what shall be done – please let me know - Mrs. M. thinks to have your old one retrimmed &c will cost you more, & not be so satisfactory as a new one entire. Miss Eliza Fisher called this morning & is looking better. Tell Rebecca that I hear that Mrs Minnie Anderson is expected next week, sometime by the 25th or 26th. All this household send you very much love – my warm love to Mr Cameron & to each one – Kisses for the children – I will write again very soon for Mr Cameron is going to the Office & I am hurried now -
Yours with love, very affectly Mary Rowland.
1 Memphis October 17th 1865
Dear Sir;-
I have your letter of the 25th ultimo. I have not yet been to Tamica - my engagements here taking my entire time. I had to fence my lot, build stables it all having been swept away (burned) by the Federal Soliders - and was dependent upon the cash collections from my practice to pay for these outlays and subsist my family and it was indispensible that I should be at my post here closely for a time. I have been very anxious to go to Tamica - but in addition to the hard and constant toil before me here there was - and is yet a trip for me to Georgia to wind up matters there and I therefore was forced to stay here. I see men from Tamica often and tho' I cannot give you now the number of your mules, cattle, and hogs - nor the quantity of corn, fodder [and with Mr Belote?] I am sure you have a good lot of hogs & cattle & a good crop for the force there - and that if you and Maj: Collins conclude to add to the herds and make a crop next year, you will
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have a good start - but will, no doubt, have to add to the stock of provisions and mules. and may be farming in implements. The mules on the place in the Spring, I [hear?] died of an epidemick and the natts-- as did every body elses, and tho' Mr Belote has got others I cannot give the kind, or numbers. Mrs Coralt will also be [sucessory?] but how much cannot as yet he told. I make no doubt you have a fine lot of cattle and hogs. My advice is for you and Maj. Collins to come at once to the place-- see the exact condition of every thing-- Settle with Belote and also with Mrs Vick and decide what is to be done next year. I would not sell now-- do not think you could-- without selling very low-- and I doubt if you can rent at what I think you ought-- with the [levies?] down. There is a good demand to rent places - that are above overflow but little or none for the overflowed estates. Watkins is trying to sell or rent his - but with no success yet and I hear will probably cultivate them. I offered one of mine for rent at $10 per acre intending to cultivate the other - but have not rented - as yet. [Lands?] with hills below Memphis: 12 to 15 miles have