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New Orleans Dec 2d 1853 Col R C Ballard Warrenton Miss Dear Sir Enclosed herewith please find invoices ordered for Out Post, Karnac, and Elk Plantations amount charged to the different places respectively. We bought the best Madras handkerchiefs - large and of good quality. We could have bought as low as $1.75 per doz, but thought you would prefer the best quality. The rope which we send to Out Post is the very best in market.
In looking over the Out Post account we find that place charge [illegible] India bagging and 12 coils rope on the 20 May [illegible]
We had [illegible] in the way of selling cotton for you since our last. Prices are a little flat to day, though we are not all alarmed for the consequences
We have fine weather and we hope the cholera will soon disappear from our city Very truly Your friends & obt Svts Nalle Cox & Co
Elk Dec 4th 1853 Col Ballard Dear Sir I would have written to you last week but was waiting for an answer to my last to you but now suppose you have not record it consequently I write you a gain I am pretty well done picking cotton or at least I will finish by the fifteenth or twentieth of this month if no preventing providence and have two hundred & sixty bales tied and a bout three hundred gined and I think the crop will be a bout three hundred & thirty tied bales and have picked two hundred bales of it very nice the other is some what trashy But not so bad as a part of that of last year I have gathered a fine crop of corn and will kill some four or five thousand lbs of meat
PS I wrote you in regard to the Doctor, the Staying an other year on the place which he wishes to do and he ask me some time past would I object if you were willing I told why would not But have concluded since I would Rather he would not so if you will now write to
me that you are not willing to keep him that will excuse me and he can not make any further request of me in the way of staying we have had no difficulty what ever as yet But his conduct on one occasion I did not like & talked to him about the matter and he made every requesite a Poligy as I though- though the man makes many remarks that are very ungarded and un called for is the grand objection I have to him please write me on this subject as soon as you get this
The negroes are all pretty well at present but have been troubled a great deal with bad colds Respectfully yours Robert F Morgan
Col R. C. Ballard Esqr
Warrenton
Miss