There was a letter of my partner’s, congratulating me very affectionately upon my being alive, giving me an account how the estate was improved, and what it produced a year; with the particulars of the number of squares, or acres that it contained, how planted, how many slaves there were upon it: and making two-and-twenty crosses for blessings, told me he had said so many _Ave Marias_ to thank the Blessed Virgin that I was alive; inviting me very passionately to come over and take possession of my own, and in the meantime to give him orders to whom he should deliver my effects if I did not come myself; concluding with a hearty tender of his friendship, and that of his family; and sent me as a present seven fine leopards’ skins, which he had, it seems, received from Africa, by some other ship that he had sent thither, and which, it seems, had made a better voyage than I. He sent me also five chests of excellent sweetmeats, and a hundred pieces of gold uncoined, not quite so large as moidores.
Részletesen leírta, a föld hány hektárán mennyit és hogyan ültetnek, hány rabszolgát alkalmaznak, és hozzátette, hogy huszonkét Üdvözlégy Máriát mondott, amikor eljutott hozzá a híre, hogy életben vagyok. Lelkesen hívott, hogy utazzam oda és vegyem át jogos tulajdonomat, ha pedig mégsem mennék, arra kért, jelezzem neki, hogy kire bízza a dolgaimat.