Item No. 6115735

A short letter written to the Inferior Court of Hall County in Gainesville, Georgia, by Southern Express Company Agent J. M. Born in Atlanta, urging the court to send for a package containing cotton cards. Valued according to Born at $14.25, cotton cards were hand tools used (largely by enslaved people) to process raw cotton into spinnable thread. The letter measures about 4 1/2” x 5 1/2” and comes in a blue postal cover bearing a pair of Confederate 5-cent postage stamps.

Office Sou Express Company
Atlanta Ga, Mch 25th 1864

Elk Infr. Court,
Hall County

Dear Sir:
There are two boxes here marked for Hall County. They probably contain cotton cards.

Expenses $14.25

Would it not be to the interest of the people to send for them?
Yours Respectfully
J. M. Born, Jr., Agt.

Per Peterson