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NARA 583

Nicholsons Store Ala Dec 14, 1868
O C French Esq.
Agt in Charge Bureau Lauderdale, Miss,

Dear Sir
Yours to I.L. Nicholson did not come to me until a few days back, as it was wrongly directed. You will find that I am the only witness to E A Brooks and Jas. Chandler's Contract and held the paper instead of I.L. Nicholson, and not living within Seventeen miles of any mail route which is the railroad, I have had no chance to reply earlier than the present.

E.A. Brooks was to furnish two hands and work himself equal to one hand, and promised Chandler to conduct the farm and use every exertion and economy for his benefit and his own, I am Sorry to inform you that he did not Carryout the first promise, you can judge when I tell you that himself and two hands made one bale of cotton weighing 390 lbs and about Sixty bushels of corn, Chandler was in bed Sick and died. Brooks and his hands, fooled away time, and have left the widow Chandler with about three hundred dollars in debt for provisions and farms, and expences in general and nothing to

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