Commercial correspondence

Letter: Drawing: Graphite and black ink wash on paper. 7 x 10 3/4 in. Letter to Frank Leslie offering sketch on recto for publication and asking for compensation. laid on verso is sheet with a letter (May 12th 1862) from Edmund Birckhead Bensell to Frank Leslie in black ink reading: 'Inclosed find / sketch of launch of Philada. Iron / clad vessel, which took place / Saturday May 10/62. If accepted / please remit five dollars ($5.), / if rejected oblige me by returning / drawing.

Inscription: Graphite and black ink wash on beige paper. 10 3/4 x 13 1/4 in. Description of drawing on the recto and offer of it for publication: Along upper edge: '[cut] Rebel defenses from Woods, Chicago Battery constituting the Advance, Sherman's position / 1 1/2 miles from the Court House at Vicksburg.--The ravine separating the two armies is / where our troops were slaughtered during the attack on the rebel batteries.

Letter: Graphite on paper. 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. verso completely inscribed with letter to Frank Leslie from 13 miles outside of Atlanta that reads: 'Frank Leslie, DSir, I will send you a sketch of a birds eye view of Atlanta Ga from a distance of thirteen miles, from a high position near the Chatahoochie River. The country between the river and Atlanta is all woods and what is called here rolling small vales and hills and the City is on high ground.

Inscription. Graphite on paper. 5 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. 'Cravens Table rock on the summit of Lookout / Mountain - This rock is situated on the brink overlooking Chattanooga Valley - it [?] of four / distinct pieces apparently, [?] on the / other & is a freak of nature as interesting in / itself as in the assumption with the events of / the day. / (The tent represented is that of a photographer / who makes 'cartes' of the heroes with a back ground / of rock & Chattanooga at $1.00 each) / Fred B. Schell.'

Inscription: Graphite on paper. 9 x 9 5/8 in.

Two-page letter from A. J. Rux in Jordans Mill, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond Virginia] regarding the poor slave trade market and relaying a story heard about the Battle of Manassas.

Two-page letter from A. J. Rux in Mobile, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond Virginia], discussing the poor slave trade market and the suspension of several [banking?] houses.

Two-page letter from A. J. Rux in McKinley, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond Virginia], reporting on the poor slave trade market and writing that "it is the darkest looking prospect to do anything that I ever saw."

Two-page letter from J. E. Prestridge in Selma, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond Virginia], disucssing the poor slave trade market and his hopes that South Carolina will secede from the United States.

One-page letter from John A. Winston in Mobile [Alabama] to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond, Virginia] regarding payments for trade goods.

One-page letter from James W. McCrary in Greensboro, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond, Virginia], informing him that "no Negroes [are] selling here at any price" citing the election of Abraham Lincoln as the reason.

One-page letter from W. J. Moore [Mune?] in Mobile [Alabama] to E. H. Stokes of Richmond, Virginia, explaining his difficulties in payment for a business transaction [probably the purchase of a slave].

Two-page letter from A. J. Rux in Union Town, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond Virginia] discussing an offer from a one S. Noland to buy out all 15 slaves in Rux's posession.

Two-page letter from A. J. Rux of Demopolis, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes of Richmond [Virginia], discussing the poor slave trade market.

Two-page letter from J. Wimbish Young in Halifax Co. [North Carolina?] to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond, Virginia] reporting on sales of trade goods and shipments to Richmond.

One-page letter from John P. Darnell in Parkersburg, Virginia to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond, Virginia], stating that he had broken a wheel spoke of Stokes's buggy and asks that he be billed for the damage.

Two-page letter from A. J. Rux in Spring Hill, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond Virginia], reporting on the poor slave trade market and his intentions to move to McKinley, Alabama, to try to sell slaves.

Two-page letter from A. J. Rux of Demopolis, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes of Richmond [Virginia] discussing financial difficulties and the poor slave trade market.

Four-page letter from A. J. Rux in Pickensville, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond Virginia], discussing the poor slave trade market.

Two-page letter from J. A. Westbrook of Jefferson, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes, discussing the health of Charlotte, a "diseased Negro" purchased from Stokes the previous winter.

Four-page letter from A. J. Rux in McKinley, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond Virginia], discussing the poor slave trade market.

One-page letter from J. J. Price in Atlanta, Georgia, to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond, Virginia] reporting on expenses of transporting slaves and "whites" in a train car to Petersburg [probably Virginia].

Two-page letter from John L. Murphy in Union Town, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond Virginia] to renegotiate terms of their contract for selling slaves, due to the poor market.

Two-page letter from Jas. [James] M. Winston in Tuscaloosa [Alabama] to W. S. [Stephen] Deupree in Richmond, Virginia, reporting on various slave trades and noting several runaway slaves.

One-page letter from J. E. Prestridge in Selma, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond Virginia], asking to be paid money and citing the poor slave trade market.

Two-page letter from A. J. Rux in Clinton, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond Virginia], reporting on the sale of a slave named Ada and lamenting the poor slave trade market.

Fragment of a letter of two leaves addressed to Gardner & Dean of Newport, Rhode Island. Only the leaf with the address remains.

Letter from Phillips & Gardner of Charleston [South Carolina] to Mess. Gardner & Dean of Newport, Rhode Island regarding the sale of "Negroes" delivered by the [Sloop] Louisa. Includes mention of specific sales to James & Dordin and Tisdale & Dean.

Letter from Phillips & Gardner of Charleston [South Carolina] to Mr. Silas Dean of Newport, Rhode Island, regarding the sale of slaves brought as cargo on the Ship Mary.

Letter from J. Wood [Captain Joseph Wood] in Malagua Bor [?] to Gardner & Dean [of Newport, Rhode Island] regarding his voyage and the trading of goods.