H. Linall Letter, December 31, 1847
Dublin Core
Title
H. Linall Letter, December 31, 1847
Subject
Antebellum Plantation Life
Description
H. Linall describes boats departing from Candy's Landing to Mobile carrying Paul Cameron's cotton crop. Linall recommends two steamboats to Cameron for his own passage, the Arkansas No. 5 and the Bradstreet. Since neighboring cotton warehouses have been burned, Linall has employed guards to watch his warehouses at night.
Creator
H. Linall
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 31, 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: Alabama (Candy's Landing; Mobile)
Text Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Paper
Files
Collection
Citation
H. Linall, “H. Linall Letter, December 31, 1847,” Plantation Letters, accessed October 20, 2026, https://plantationletters.org/items/show/78.