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Natches July 22 1846
Rice Ballard Esqr
Dear Sir
I received your favour of in relation to making a Levee on the land in Warren County & intended to have the Levee made, but the decision of the Supreme Court against the Commercial Bank about the time your Letter was recd prevented my doing so, and I feel it my duty to inform you, as you are no doubt expecting me to attend to it -
The Assets of the Commercial Bank have been all surrendered to William Robertson Esqr the Trustee appointed by the Court & perhaps some arrangement may be made to make the Levee on the property which is held in my name, but as I cannot carry it on at once as you expected I feel it a duty as stated above to inform you, that you may not be disappointed
Yours very respectfully Thos Henderson
Rice C. Ballard Esq
Louisville
Kentucky
Vicksburg July 23d 1846
Dear Col
I was at your plantation yesterday and found all well, the crop has improved very much since you left, it is growing and making very fast, Case was pulling fodder yesterday and I had a good chance to see the corn in upper field it is as you no doubts expected very short he says however the hill field is much better, Case I think has managed very well with One exception he whiped entirely too sereve, I talked to him about it for some time but to no purpose I then wrote to Judge Boyd and when he come up he talked to him and Since he left every thing is going on well and quietly, I have no doubt every thing will be done that can be,
there is nothing new here the county very healthy- you will all have to come to this County, for health after a few years more, I expected to have heard from you before this time.
Yours truly,
C. Steele
Col Rice C. Ballard
Louisville
Kentucky
Magnolia July 24 1846
Dear sir this will inform you that I am well and the negroes also their has bin no rain this week except one light shower I have a fine time for saveing fodder I comencd to pulling last tuesday morning I have only 6 double stacks up to night and about 15 pulled but tomorrow night I shall have up 14 stacks I have pulled the uper river field and I am now in the stable field the river field will not make a half crop of corn the stable field is better I have 15 plows runing all the time in my cotton for fear of the [tryvines?] for they are thick all over the place and growing fast my mules lacks verry well my cotton is verry good in part and some not so good I have some as high as my horses back and well formed the young cotton is half thigh high and blooming fair I think I shall make a tolerable crop yet but I have no ideah how much as cotton makes so slow I dont think I shall get a picking until about the middle of august I have nothing more the reason I am so particular