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Star Plantation Parish of Plaquemine Oct. 9th 1864

Mr Wheelock:

Sir,

I wrote to you in my last report that Mr Morlier, the overseer of this plantation was dead, and also, that his widow, Madame Morlier was going to her relatives at Pointe a la Hache. I stated also my own forlorn situation in that case, and my uncertainty as to who the future proprietor of this place would be. All disagreeable forebodings however, have been removed, for the present Owner, Mr Des Londre, is one to whom I can give no higher praise, than to say that he is a gentleman, in the fullest sense of the word.

Now may I ask you to do a favor for me? Accompanying this you will see a letter addressed to my mother, which I 

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