Box 2

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Writing from New York, Charles Sr., instructs his son to return home, surmising he has outstayed his welcome with the Swifts at Falmouth.

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Regarding ill health of Charles III and Charles II; her inability to acquire items Charles has asked for; poor crop of 1833; reminding Charles when he "get[s] the house" he will need to furnish it and acquire a few slaves; chastises Charles for not reporting Halveston's (a Georgia overseer) movements to his father; greetings to the slaves.

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Confirming the sale of a portions of the family's slaves; visit of James Gibbes and his friend Moffit; discovery of a new game called "Solitaire"; James' last letter lost by the carrier; reveals two of their hogs have been shot by the Grimkes prompting the outburst: "they are the most wretched and disagreeable neighbours, I wish they were a hundred miles distance from us."

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

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Fifteen year-old James discussing their duty to each other and their parents.

Scope and Contents Regarding Charles' inability to visit due to leg pain and his profitless rice (it is "small grained, red, & brittle"); removal of the ineffective Mr. Halveston as overseer; how to work the plantation, divide labor etc; rejecting the enslaved requests for tobacco; threatening to withhold land traditionally used for private slave cultivation; encourages Charles to let Hughes manage the plantation freely (despite his detailed instructions to Charles); and also to "share and share alike"...

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Referring to a "revengeful act of that pitiful fellow Halveston"; sending the "needful to release the boy Peter from the Sheriff"; various messages to Hughes regarding his wife and what he is owed by Mr. Lynah.

Scope and Contents Regarding a storm; his proposed travels to Charleston (from Savannah); instructs Charles not to have "any more little strifes [sic] with Mr. Hughes," to wait until Hughes "cools down" and then remind him that Charles III is "master on the place," to allow Hughes to manage the plantation but not to "treat him as an equal"; details what crops and quantities are to be sent to him; instructs Charles III to survey land around the existing plantation (for possible future purchase); inquires about...

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Writing to Charles at Jefferson, regarding the departure of Mr. Hughes' family from Charleston; purchasing timber; Dr Cohen's (agent) help with purchasing boards and shingles; asking Charles to ask Mrs. Hughes to encourage her husband to curtail his drinking and to keep away from Caldwell who is a negative influence in this regard; Caldwell, who is forbidden from Drayton's property.

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Regarding his arrival at Troy, New York, where he is visiting James; instructs Charles not to displease his mother and to follow her directions on "home affairs."