Benjamin H. Coupland, Goshen, to Carter Coupland, St. Louis, 1817

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Box 36, Folder 4
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received your letter of the 4th. Was pleased to hear that you liked the country where you are now living. Suspect your descriptions are somewhat exaggerated. My crop this year is a very fine one. Shallll have about seven or eight hundred barrels. If eight hundred, I will after supporting my plantation, have five hundred barrels of corn for market. I can sell this for about twenty-five hundred dollars. Had hoped to visit you this summer, but find it impossible. Polly is ill but I cannot take to the springs this summer. The cost of the trip last summer and the loss sustained by the lack of our overseer make it impossible to leave the plantation. Wrtie to me on your receipt of this. Let me know your situation and prospects. If you need money, do not hesitate to ask me.

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