Describing crops and hunting and fishing opportunities in 1854 Thomas County, Georgia, in an autograph letter, signed May 17, 1854, from Boston, Georgia, to “Friend Martindale.”

by D. R. Watson

$125 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

4to. 2-pages, approximately 500 words, in part: “We have fine sea breezes to fan away the hot air. A great country for fish &* game … we can have a plenty of fish all the time by going a few miles to catch them & deer are very plenty all over this country and Wild Turkies in abundance within sight of our house & the squirrels are Excellent being almost as large again as at the north … the morals in general are far behind the Northern folks & Even professions of

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