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Estate is valued at £31,120.

Freight charges and duty for shipment of curacoa.

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

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

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.

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.

Asks Lang to make payments to James Haldane of Edinburgh and to Messrs Smith & Elder & Co. [publishers]; he will make a donation to Lang's fund for building a church; the weather.

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.