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New Orleans 5 Nov 1833
R C Ballard &Co.
Sir you will herewith please receive
First Check Drawn by the Cashier of the Union
Bank of this place dated this day in your
favour on the Cashier of the Merchants
Bank New York Nr 2167 for the sum
of fifteen thousand dollars I have also
forward First check dated Drawn +
as above Nr 2168 in favor of Franklin
Armfield & Co for Twenty Thousand Dollars
will forward you in a mail or two
a further sum of five thousand dollars
in haste as usual Isaac Franklin

Dear Ballard I reached this place yesterday and
found in the post office the Invoyce & Bill of Lading
for 63 Slaves together with your request what desposition
I should make of some of the negroes all of which I
will attend to when an opportunity offers the demand
for slaves is considerable not so much with sugar
planters as with the cotton planters but the invoyse price
is so high that you may look out for the short profits but of