Letters to Aimar in Charleston, S.C., from managers/overseers of White House plantation re farming operations and arrangements with laborers, including letter, 1 Nov. 1870, from E.D. LaRoche, Toogoodoo Creek, Adam's Run, Charleston County, S.C., re harvesting of cotton and predicting a 100 lbs. per acre yield, reviewing other farming operations, wages due Clarence and Jack for one month's labor, and requesting medication to treat his daughter's illness. Letter, 1 Jan. 1878, from R[obert] V. R[oyall], White House Plantation, re hunting, farm news, and reporting departure of all former Middleton family slaves due to pressure from other freedmen; letter, 31 Oct. 1878, Charleston, S.C., to R.V. Royall, re terms for Royall's management of White House plantation for the year 1879, inventory of livestock, farm implements, and worker houses and other buildings, and stipulating terms for the contract hands. Letter, 10 Feb. 1879, from R.V. Royall, White House Plantation, re crop and farm news including terms of agreements with contract laborers; letter, 27 Oct. 1882, from John C[aldwell] Wilson, White House Plantation, re cotton harvest; speech, c. 1887, anonymous address to the 10th anniversary meeting of the [South Carolina Pharmaceutical Association] re efforts to expand membership, a court case in Barnwell, S.C., and urging defeat of the "Apothecaries Bill." Journal, 1874-1877 and 1879-1888, re operations at White House Plantation, including lists of contract hands identified by name; terms of labor with hands and agreements with overseers; spreading fertilizer and mudding; record, 1870-1884, of dates of planting, blossom, remarks, laid by, first picking, and yield; instructions for planting cotton; harvest costs; worm damage and combating insects; planting additional crops of corn, rice, peas, and potatoes. Also containing entries for Jan. 1875, comparing their method of planting cotton to method used by Dr. R[obert Bee] Lebby, Jr.'s, James Island, S.C.; 24 Apr. 1875, re mismanagement and low production on the plantation; 24 Nov. 1875, agreement with W[illia]m Clement for overseeing the plantation; 4 Feb. 1876, re disagreement between Ben[jamin] Rivers and overseer W. Clement, and Rivers apology to C.P. Aimar; 18 Nov. 1876, agreement with P.O. and A.E. Wilson to lease the plantation for the year 1877; 27 Nov. 1879, reviewing the year 1879 and noting the manager's violation of their agreement; and 26 Oct. 1880, re manager's report indicating the lack of sufficient labor to harvest the cotton.
