Allan MacFarlan to George Patten. University of South Florida Tampa Library still image eng Letter from Allan MacFarlan to George Patten, letterhead and page one. Written from Chelaw [?] South Carolina to George Patten about the former Gamble planation in Ellenton. The letter reads: President's Office,Chevalu and Darlington Railroad, Chelaw, South Carolina, 8 Dec. 1868. George Patten, Esq. Thomasville, Georgia. Dear Sir! Your favor of the 17th Ultimo and 4th Instant have been received. The former reached this whilst my official duties absorbed all my attention, and since my return from Charleston in discharge of these duties my health has been such as to prevent my writing. Moreover the statements that you make took me so much by surprise that I felt, as I now feel, at a loss what to do. On yesterday I was consulting with a friend as to the propriety and expediency of sending a special agent to confer with you and if necessary to proceed to Manitee. I fear, the old residents who consider the land exhausted of the elements necessary to make sugar" are utterly ignorant of that which they affirm, and that Captain McNeill "could not make sweet potatoes" indicates to me that Captain McNeill could not make sweet potatoes on the best sweet potato land in South Carolina or Georgia. It is one of the best places for making sweet potatoes that I ever saw and when managing the Estate of Col. Gamble I saved, in one or two years, over fifteen hundred dollars by having a large field of potatoes planted in sections at different times giving us potatoes of fine quality throughout the entire year, having no trouble in saving them as we dug as we wanted. The other residents said then that corn could not be made and yet in the face of this I made more than was needed [end of page] Letter from Allan MacFarlan to George Patten, letterhead and page one. Written from Chelaw [?] South Carolina to George Patten about the former Gamble planation in Ellenton. The letter reads: President's Office,Chevalu and Darlington Railroad, Chelaw, South Carolina, 8 Dec. 1868. George Patten, Esq. Thomasville, Georgia. Dear Sir! Your favor of the 17th Ultimo and 4th Instant have been received. The former reached this whilst my official duties absorbed all my attention, and since my return from Charleston in discharge of these duties my health has been such as to prevent my writing. Moreover the statements that you make took me so much by surprise that I felt, as I now feel, at a loss what to do. On yesterday I was consulting with a friend as to the propriety and expediency of sending a special agent to confer with you and if necessary to proceed to Manitee. I fear, the old residents who consider the land exhausted of the elements necessary to make sugar" are utterly ignorant of that which they affirm, and that Captain McNeill "could not make sweet potatoes" indicates to me that Captain McNeill could not make sweet potatoes on the best sweet potato land in South Carolina or Georgia. It is one of the best places for making sweet potatoes that I ever saw and when managing the Estate of Col. Gamble I saved, in one or two years, over fifteen hundred dollars by having a large field of potatoes planted in sections at different times giving us potatoes of fine quality throughout the entire year, having no trouble in saving them as we dug as we wanted. The other residents said then that corn could not be made and yet in the face of this I made more than was needed [end of page] United States Florida--Manatee County--Ellenton Manatee County Public Library Historic Photograph Collection
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Letter from Allan MacFarlan to George Patten, letterhead and page one. Written from Chelaw [?] South Carolina to George Patten about the former Gamble planation in Ellenton. The letter reads: President's Office,Chevalu and Darlington Railroad, Chelaw, South Carolina, 8 Dec. 1868. George Patten, Esq. Thomasville, Georgia. Dear Sir! Your favor of the 17th Ultimo and 4th Instant have been received. The former reached this whilst my official duties absorbed all my attention, and since my return from Charleston in discharge of these duties my health has been such as to prevent my writing. Moreover the statements that you make took me so much by surprise that I felt, as I now feel, at a loss what to do. On yesterday I was consulting with a friend as to the propriety and expediency of sending a special agent to confer with you and if necessary to proceed to Manitee. I fear, the old residents who consider the land exhausted of the elements necessary to make sugar" are utterly ignorant of that which they affirm, and that Captain McNeill "could not make sweet potatoes" indicates to me that Captain McNeill could not make sweet potatoes on the best sweet potato land in South Carolina or Georgia. It is one of the best places for making sweet potatoes that I ever saw and when managing the Estate of Col. Gamble I saved, in one or two years, over fifteen hundred dollars by having a large field of potatoes planted in sections at different times giving us potatoes of fine quality throughout the entire year, having no trouble in saving them as we dug as we wanted. The other residents said then that corn could not be made and yet in the face of this I made more than was needed [end of page]
Letter from Allan MacFarlan to George Patten, letterhead and page one. Written from Chelaw [?] South Carolina to George Patten about the former Gamble planation in Ellenton. The letter reads: President's Office,Chevalu and Darlington Railroad, Chelaw, South Carolina, 8 Dec. 1868. George Patten, Esq. Thomasville, Georgia. Dear Sir! Your favor of the 17th Ultimo and 4th Instant have been received. The former reached this whilst my official duties absorbed all my attention, and since my return from Charleston in discharge of these duties my health has been such as to prevent my writing. Moreover the statements that you make took me so much by surprise that I felt, as I now feel, at a loss what to do. On yesterday I was consulting with a friend as to the propriety and expediency of sending a special agent to confer with you and if necessary to proceed to Manitee. I fear, the old residents who consider the land exhausted of the elements necessary to make sugar" are utterly ignorant of that which they affirm, and that Captain McNeill "could not make sweet potatoes" indicates to me that Captain McNeill could not make sweet potatoes on the best sweet potato land in South Carolina or Georgia. It is one of the best places for making sweet potatoes that I ever saw and when managing the Estate of Col. Gamble I saved, in one or two years, over fifteen hundred dollars by having a large field of potatoes planted in sections at different times giving us potatoes of fine quality throughout the entire year, having no trouble in saving them as we dug as we wanted. The other residents said then that corn could not be made and yet in the face of this I made more than was needed [end of page]
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