- Collection:
- "Thar's gold in them thar hills": Gold and Gold Mining in Georgia, 1830s-1940s
- Title:
- Letter: Columbus, Georgia to Colonel Wier Boyd, Dahlonega, Georgia, 1869 Apr. 3
- Creator:
- Dexter, Amory, 1829-1887
- Date of Original:
- 1869-04-03
- Subject:
- Collecting of accounts--Georgia--Dahlonega
Cotton--Georgia
Cotton--Storage--Georgia--Columbus - People:
- Boyd, Wier G., 1820-1893
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Lumpkin County, Dahlonega, 34.53259, -83.98491
United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771 - Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- Letter from Amory Dexter, civil engineer and one-time agent of the Yahoola River and Cane Creek Hydraulic Hose Mining Company, to Colonel Wier Boyd, dated April 3, 1869. Dexter is sorry to hear Boyd is experiencing financial strain and offers a payment plan to ease repayment of his debt. He expresses irritation that even though cotton sales are slow, he has to keep his warehouse office open because of high inventory. Dexter says the result is that he will not be able to visit Dahlonega until summer.
A project of the Digital Library of Georgia in association with the Lumpkin County Library, Chestatee Regional Library System as part of Georgia HomePLACE. This project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. - Local Identifier:
- mka007
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/dahl/id:mka007
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_dahl_mka007
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_dahl_mka007/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], [title of series, if applicable], Madeleine K. Anthony Collection, Chestatee Regional Library System, Lumpkin County Branch, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- [1] p.
- Original Collection:
- Madeleine K. Anthony Collection, box II-1, folder 18., Chestatee Regional Library System, Lumpkin County Branch
- Holding Institution:
- Lumpkin County Library
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Columbus. Ga. [Georgia] Apr. [April] 3d 1869.
Col. [Colonel] Wier [Wier] Boyd.
Dahlonega. Ga. [Georgia]
Dear Sir --
I am in receipt of your favor 30th ult. [ultimo] Was glad to hear from you; but sorry you are hard pushed financially; & would not have known of it, if you had not mentioned it.
If it is a possible thing I would like you to send me say $30. now; & I will then try & wait for balance until 1st July -- If you can manage it; you might register & send by mail: I will return a receipt & you can get [deleted text: note] it endorsed on note. --
We are still idle, but as the stock of cotton in this Market is some 11.000 bales we cannot close office & go off.
It is our intention to visit you in the summer both for pleasure of seeing you all & as a matter of economy. With best respects
Yours very truly
[Signed] Amory Dexter.