John W. Mitchell letters, 1840-1842.

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Mitchell, John Wroughton, 1796-1878. John W. Mitchell letters, 1840-1842.

John W. Mitchell letters, 1840-1842.

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Letters to Mitchell from his cousin Thomas C. Marshall of Charleston (S.C.) concern Marshall's attempts to sell his slave James, family property on Broad Street, financial problems, difficulties with his sister Caroline (whom he accuses of immoral conduct), his repayments of a debt owed to Mitchell, his drinking, economic conditions in Charleston, and other matters. Marshall writes about his supposed recovery from alcoholism (being "dead unto intemperance") and then with cynical humor closes his letter with "As pants the hart for cooling streams, when heated in the chase, so long I for a glass of Number Six. With your permission I will adjourn and take a drink." In a farcical letter (1840 March 6) signed "Tom Chandler," Marshall announces his own death, with "no tombstone to mark his grave, and to say to the passing traveler, here lies the remains of poor Tom Puss Cat, nevertheless, he had this to console him in his dying moments, that he had caught two of St. Philip's Church mice."

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