Kenneth Rayner Letter, December 18, 1847
Dublin Core
Title
Kenneth Rayner Letter, December 18, 1847
Subject
Antebellum Plantation Life
Description
Rayner continues south on his journey by horseback, then stage, then steamboat, checking on his lands with hopes of selling some, describes good overseer and cotton crop on plantation in Arkansas, and solicits banker Duncan Cameron for interest-bearing loan to purchase more property adjoining his Arkansas plantation.
Creator
Kenneth Rayner
Source
Cameron Family Papers, 1757-1978
Publisher
Photographed, transcribed, tagged, and shared in this Omeka Collection by Dr. Kevin Oliver, North Carolina State University College of Education
Date
December 18, 1847
Rights
As noted in the source collection, “copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.”
Relation
The Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Personal correspondence, letter
Identifier
series: 1.3.3, box: 43, folder: 1023
Coverage
United States: Grand Lake, AR; New Orleans, LA; New York; Philadelphia, PA; Raleigh, NC; Maury County, TN; Memphis, TN
Text Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Paper
Files
Collection
Citation
Kenneth Rayner, “Kenneth Rayner Letter, December 18, 1847,” Plantation Letters, accessed October 20, 2026, https://plantationletters.org/items/show/69.