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           Eldorado Union County Arkansas Sept 5th 1858

         Dear Brother

                     I now take my pen to write

to you & will inform you that we are all

tolerable well Except Harriet She is

able to be up but is troubled a good

deal with headache I have nothing of

interest to write at this time we have

had a drought in this neighbourhood

which lasted till the 13th of August I

think we have made plenty of corn

to Serve us the next year but our cotton

has suffered considerable in the latter

part of June it was believed by Some

that our cotton would make from 10 to

12 hundred pound of Seed cotton to the

acre but Since the dry wether has come

upon it I think it will not averidge

more then 4 hundred to the acre the

Drought was only in cirten neighbour

hoods Some people in this State have

made good crops of corn & torerable

crops of cotton there has ben an overflow

in the valleys of the Mississippi which

has overflowed many plantations and

I understand that people on that River

have the yellow feever also in Sreeves

Port Luiesanna

this is the 9th of September our famaly

are all well I enjoy good helth my self

I expect to Start to the Association

tomorrow morning which is to be

held in Columbia County about 25

miles above here  I Expect to See

Brother D. S. Williams at that place