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Office of J. V. Thurston & Co. Wholesale Commission Merchants, 131, 132 & 133 West Washington Market, New York August 29 1865 Gen W Swayne Dear Sir I noticed in the N.Y. Herald of the 28th ult a letter written by you in which you express an opinion that Yankee enterprise would be rewarded if properly applied in the South My object in writing is the make a few enquiries. If you new the time and dispisition to Reply you will oblije me Can I purchase a plantation for a low or nominal price and obtain a good title to the same. for Greenback Can I obtain coloured laborers to work it at reasonable price on either for reasonable wages. Can I obtain the necessary farming implements Provisions clothing &c at reasonable prices are there any Military restrictions that would interfere with the successful working of a plantations.
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