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Mr. J.P. Westray

Mulberry Grove July 8, 42

I recd your kind letter by the last mail and would have answered it sooner had the mail left before today. I fear you will not make as profitable an investment in cotton as we anticipated when you were with me - and as such I should hold on as long as there seemed a probability of a rise in prices. Still I should be much obliged to you if you would draw on Mr Mitchell in anticipation of sale for five hundred dollars as I shall need some two or three hundred before I leave the [lower?] county this fall having promised to pay some small sums to different individuals. Commission merchants generally [illegible] their friends & customers having produce in land [illegible] draw for at least one third of its value therefore you may enclose the draft in your letter of reply and trust it to the mail, as the distance is so short I hope no difficulty will transpire (Direct to Murfreesboro 60)

I saw yesterday WLW Thomphson the agent of W. Hinton in the sale of his lands on the Roanoke. He says Hinton is anxious to sale and will