BIB_ID
206577
Accession number
MA 9402
Creator
Coffin, Isaac, Sir, 1759-1839.
Display Date
1817 May 19.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 25.1 x 19.7 cm
Notes
Written "On board the Milo off the / Bar of Charleston."
Docketed "I. Coffin / Acorns / Sugar Berries / Wild Turkeys."
Address panel with remnants of a seal to "John Hume, Esq. / Charleston Green / Charleston."
Docketed "I. Coffin / Acorns / Sugar Berries / Wild Turkeys."
Address panel with remnants of a seal to "John Hume, Esq. / Charleston Green / Charleston."
Provenance
From the Ford collection.
Summary
Asking him to send acorns, seeds and wild turkeys; saying that the acorns he gathered and planted the previous year failed to grow and requesting "...you will next season cause half a Dozen quart Bottles to be filled with Acorns from the stateliest Live Oaks on your Plantation... I saw a fine looking tree at Beaufort called the Sugar Berry Tree by the Negroes, pray send me a few of the Seeds from it, if they can be procured and if p'rchance you can obtain a pair of Wild Turkies for me I shall be very thankful, for seven years past all my efforts in that way have proved fruitless."
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