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Elk Aug 12th 1853
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Dear sir I write you and at the same time I hardly Know how But will say that the cotton is very unflaterin I But hope to make three hundred bales But if I should have many more sutch rains as I have had this Evning I can not make any calculation a bout the crop anyway my time has already been beat by the rains this season- the cotton is now opening slowly But I want to put my trash gan to picking in a bout a week if no pre venting providence- the fall will have to be a very Late one to make any thing Like sutch as that of Last year- there is a great posion of the cotton that shead all of its leaves and you can very readily imagin that its forms must also be gone- which have been caused by the weat weather But hope it may all turn out better than the appearance now bids for- my people have been sick from fifteen to one have for the Last two weeks and some very bad I have fifteen now sick But the most of them are convalesant- there has
been two different grades of fever a mong them and flux very bad and there was scarcely any two cases of flux that could be treated a Like I am very well my self very Respectfully yours
Robert F Morgan
Col R. C. Ballard. Esqr
Louisville Grayson Springs Ky
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Col. R. C. Ballard
Louisville Kentucky