Box 2

Regarding the poor mail service; a sea disaster involving the steamer Home and Croom family; criticism of Captain White; business failures.

Requesting information about the deaths of his brother Hardy B. Croom and his family, of steamer The Home.

Regarding Charles II, completion of cotton planting; hoping to see James (son) soon.

Regarding attending a tea party at John Grimke's (Magnolia) with various local planters and wives; John being elusive and troublesome; attending the dedication of the "Jew synagogue" [K.K.B.E, Charleston], with description of interior.

Regarding his father's will of 1830 (Charles II, d. 1844); division of the estate, in particular, Jehossee, the Coosawatchie and Georgia lands.

Regarding sale of two Drayton slaves, Peter and Sam (Donald is lowering his offer).

Mainly concerning Drayton's Jeffersonton slaves who were "not secured" and thus had been "allowed to slip off"; Dr. Cohen is blamed; Charles III has purchased handcuffs; if Charles III decides to sell the slaves, he is urged not to "give them away" but to sell at Charleston were he "can obtain eight, nine and ten hundred doll's."

Correspondence of John Drayton, James Glen, Charles Drayton I, II and III, Mary Middleton Drayton, and many others, organized chronologically.

Acknowledging receipt of payment and enclosing new bill (enclosure not found).

Accepting Charles' right to choose a certain (though undisclosed) course of action.