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You saw something on my self imposed [[??]] as to [[?]] the white poor farmers to make an attempt at a crop - after maintaining and employing my well trained and dutiful old servants of color. The [?]] has been left - after three years past - so heavy upon myself, that I am almost staggering under it. I leave [[?]] providing for my old plantation once shared the corn that I got in New Orleans to make a crop, with some fifteen or twenty families, within they have started a crop but they will not be able to finish, if even to get bread for [[??]] unless I get your help. I have on [[??]] written another [[??]] from New Orleans. Will put as ours until corn is made. Yours with high regard, G.L. Players [In greatest [??]] ]