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Reduction in profit from estates due to low prices of produce and high prices of supplies; statement of crops produced by Estates Good Hope, Mon Bijou, William, Paradise and Adventure; settlement of account with George Ryan following his death; mention of Mr. McWilliam, engineer; his hope to delay installing new boiler on Mon Bijou estate until crop is complete; the weather; a severe fire at Spring Garden.

Supplies from Lake Erie; favourable weather; growth of crops; amounts of sugar, rum and molasses produced; molasses and rum prices; he has drawn two bills on Moses and Son G. Melchior. Enclosed is a letter from William Dawson, 26 May 1862, regarding sending supplies from Lakes Ontario, Michigan and Erie.

Weather; crop growth; arrival of the Gerson with supplies; molasses, rum and sugar prices; death of a mutual friend, G.J. Mudie of Upper Love; arrival of mules expected.

Estate is valued at £31,120.

Details of sale of Estate William; arrival of shipment of supplies; effect of dry weather on sugar growth.

Accounts for sale of sugar from Estates Good Hope, Mon Bijou and William; rum and sugar prices; price of supplies; dry weather.

The arrival of supplies; high price of supplies; amounts of rum and molasses produced; prices of rum and molasses; dry weather.

Effect of lack of rain on sugar crop; lease or sale of Estate William; mules.

Corn meal supplies; custom of giving pork, flour and cherry brandy to labourers at end of crop; petition to reduce export duties on sugar; employment of Mr. Dawson to purchase supplies in America; effects of the dry weather; encloses statistics for crops produced in 1861, numbers of labourers, stock and cultivation [not extant].

Dry weather; scarcity of labour; problems with boilers on Estate Good Hope; sale of sugar from Estate Mon Bijou; sudden deaths of Mr. Thornton, manager of Estate Adventure, and Mr. Adam Skeoch, manager of Estate Campo Rico; ill health of P.W. Schousboe.

He has had Estate William valued and encloses the valuation; small crop from Estate Paradise this year; importation of Asian labourers; the weather; a fire on Estate Good Hope.

Details of offer for rental of Estate William, St. Croix.

Sugar prices; sales including impact on market due to unsettled state in America; weather; change in quality of Danish boards used on the estates.

Sale and shipping of sugar; advises against nominating James McFarlane as estate manager; continuing dry weather; amounts of sugar and rum produced on Estates Good Hope, Mon Bijou, William, Paradise and Adventure; disturbance in America damaging rum prices.

Problems in management of Estate William; shortage of labourers; sugar production; effects of weather; sales of rum; list of supplies ordered for Estates Good Hope, Mon Bijou and William.