South carolina July the 7.18.62
Laurens district
Dear Son I again
Seat my Self to drop you a fiew
lines to let you know that we
ar all Stil well onley mother
she is very poarly hir helth
is very bad I hope that thos
fiew lines will find you all well
I resivd aletter from you yesterday
last friday stating that you
wanted sum provision it was too
late to send it by H P Taylor
I sent yoar pants by him I
reseived yoar close that you
sent in Boyds trunk you sed
that you wanted to know how
my crop looked it is onley
tolerable this has bin avery bad
spring for my land my crop is
all late tho it is in tolerable
good fix and I think if thare
ant no freshes that I will make
plenty of corn the rust kild
my oats tha never heded attall
and my may wheat was very
sorry an I had sum [gale?]
wheat that was tolerable good
tho I hav not got it out yet
I cant tell what it will make
we hav avery pritty garden
and sweet potato pach and ire
ish potatos in abundence
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we send you sum dried frut
Pies and sweat cakes and irish
potatos & butter the butter
is yoars and T P Coopers the
wether is so warm that we cant
send aney thing that will
spoil or we wold bake sum
chickens and send them take
car of yoar old trunk and if
you hav the chance you can
send it home and then we
will hav it to send again so
send it by the first one that
cums up and then we will
hav it reddy I am going to
send this by W W Stone &
and also I will send you
a small gug of whiskey and
you must treat stone when
you open yoar trunk Becca and
lonzy sends you sum apples James
Duvall has a bottle of whiskey
T P Cupper has a botte of whiskey
and abottle of preservd graps
and sum buisket and ground
ry also a portion of the tatoes is
coopers James duvall has [sum?] bisquet
and pies sent in since I rote
the above Y J Culbertson has his
in a sack and marked as we
understand that he was not with
the rest of you aunt sally sed
to send it to him if you can
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and if not the rest of you
can use it but I wold like
for him to get it William
Box has three plugs of tobacco
that is about all that I hav
to rite I want you to be shore
to rite as soon as you get
this and let me know how
you all ar and whare you
ar an whither you get yoar
trunk or not and all those
things and give me all the news
that you can so I will
close nothing more at presant
I stil remain as ever yoar
afectionat father til deth
J M Culbertson