Name/Title
Letter to HAR from ABREntry/Object ID
2009.016.1pScope and Content
Letter to HAR from ABR, written from Kensington.
Transcription:
[written at top of p. 1]
Rolly is very devoted to Sally Preston & people in Columbia say that Hood is certainly jilted & that Rolly & Miss S are engaged]
Kensington June
Dearest,
I went up to Columbia to have an interview with Edmund about father's and Barnwell's affairs the day after you left and I got back to this place yesterday. Col. Haughton read me a dispatch which he received the evening that I saw him which directed him to administer the oath to Members of the Legislation as well as to paroled Officers under the rank of Brigadier-General. I have therefore written to Barnwell to come down to take the oath So that I will not be surprised if you see him in Charleston before long. It will be necessary for father to take the oath and to look after his own affairs no one can do it for him. Mrs Singleton has made a contract with her negroes giving them one third of the growing crop - that does not include the wheat oats or rye which are already made, being now ripe - most of the planters around him have made a similar contract though some have contracted for only one fourth. I believe the almost universal opinion is that one fourth is as much as should be given or indeed can be given to make planting pay but there was no concert of action amongst the planters. I hope your father will buy corn in the fall and collect all of his negroes on Jehossee by Christmas so as to make a contract with them for next year. I believe the proper plan is for the planters to contract with the negroes for seven or ten years. If they were bound for a period of years in that way the feeling of loyalty and subordination could be kept up.
I miss you terribly it is astonishing how the absence of our little body can make a place so lonely. It seems as if the house is deserted.
Looking over the Charleston Courier which Mr Lowndes left here I see that Congress water[*] is advertised. You must get some & drink it every morning as soon as you wake up. If you will drink a dozen bottles in that way it will do you a great deal of good & clear your complexion. Mr Richard Lowndes told Mrs Singleton that your father and mother are going to the north to spend the summer. If so your father will no doubt go to Saratoga. It will do him a great deal of good. Give my respects to him and tell him I recommend it. You must make your arrangements to come up from Charleston on the first day of July. For I am not willing for you to be in Charleston on the Fourth of July and it will not be safe to travel on fourth of July eve. There will be too much drunkenness and riotery [sic].
Ever Your Affectionate Husband
A. Burnet Rhett
*Transcriber's note: Water from the Congress Spring in Saratoga, NY.Collection
Aiken-Rhett HouseAcquisition
Accession
2009.016.Source or Donor
Maybank, ThomasAcquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
Gift of Thomas MaybankLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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LetterNomenclature Primary Object Term
CorrespondenceNomenclature Sub-Class
Other DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Correspondence, Personal Papers, Rhett, Henrietta Aiken--Correspondence, Aiken-Rhett family, Aiken-Rhett family--CorrespondenceArchive Details
Archive Size/Extent
1 pageArchive Notes
Date(s) Created: June
Date(s): Undated
Level of Description: ItemLocation
Location
Room
Margaretta P. Childs ArchivesBuilding
Missroon HouseCategory
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Rhett, Henrietta AikenPerson or Organization
Rhett, Andrew BurnetGeneral Notes
Note
Notes: Transcription by Christine Mathieson, graduate student in the Clemson Historic Preservation program, Nov. 2009; revised by Karen Emmons, HCF Archivist.Created By
admin@catalogit.appCreate Date
August 4, 2009Updated By
sferguson@historiccharleston.orgUpdate Date
May 24, 2023