FROM ROBERT CAMPBELL, JR. Dear Sir Yallowbusha Ct. Miss Jan. 9th 1847 I have received both of your letters of the 12th Decem 46. I am now at your plantation. Your people are all in good health, and dooing will. They are going on clearing finely. I have setled up all of your business as far as it can be done at this. I got here on the 6th Inst. with the Girl (Agness)1 that Col Childress2 sent down to me on the 28th November last & I also brought a Boy 17 or 18 years old (Jo.)3 that I Bought of C. B. Hadly Agent for Y. S. Pickard.4 I bought for the purpose of speculation & could have got $700. in gold for him before I got your letter in Macon.5 After getting yours I concluded to let you have him. I gave $625 & shall charge you $650. the asking price for young Women. I shall use my best exertions to have three or four more on the farm in time to make the crop. I must buy two More Muels. I have written to Picket6 to let me know at Mobile what young Negroes are worthe in Neworleans. If the prices will Justify I will go there if I do not buy while in Mobile. If I should fail in both places I will be in Columbia about the last of Febrary next & will send or bring them down with the Muels. If I should buy7 I have paid out all of my own Money & drew a check on Picket Perkins & Co. for three hundred dollars. You will see on the oposite a full statement of all the expences. Their is nothing owing here that is due. I have setled all...