Letter, 1847 Jan. 18 (Bordeaux P.O., Abbeville Dist[rict], S.C.), from J.J. Pope, Jr. (Charleston, [S.C.]).

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Pope, Joseph James, 1825-1870. Letter, 1847 Jan. 18 (Bordeaux P.O., Abbeville Dist[rict], S.C.), from J.J. Pope, Jr. (Charleston, [S.C.]).

Letter, 1847 Jan. 18 (Bordeaux P.O., Abbeville Dist[rict], S.C.), from J.J. Pope, Jr. (Charleston, [S.C.]).

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Letter reporting news of a fire that destroyed a home and business, and crimes committed by and against African American slaves in Charleston, S.C. Letter in which Pope apologizes for having not written during the time he was away in the country for a month and reports that he had been "sick and dull and lonely" since returning to Charleston, S.C. He urges Morrow to leave Abbeville and visit him as he needed "encouragement and counsel" due to the fact that a young woman he admired, identified here only as "Caroline," was engaged to be married, even though the report of her engagement had brought scandal to her good name. The writer continues on to tell of the destruction by fire of Panknin's drug store on Market Street from which "he saved nothing not even his books." The Panknin family had escaped by a ladder from an upper window but "the nurse of his child was burned and found next day amid the cinders." The letter concludes with references to the sensational news in Charleston of "a murder which was committed on a negro woman by her mistress ... Mrs. Rowan" and Pope's decision not to undertake the defense of a slave indicted for murder since he had not yet been admitted to the bar.

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