Vanished Gardens by Sharon White

Author:Sharon White [White, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8203-3973-3
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

In August, Henry Laurens wrote a letter to John Bartram describing William’s health after a summer on his plantation:

His situation on the river is the least agreeable of all the places that I have seen,—on a low sheet of sandy pine barren, verging on the swamp, which before his door is very narrow, in a bight or cove of the river . . . the water almost stagnated, exceedingly foul, and absolutely stank when stirred up by our oars.

His crops are stunted, his house “a hovel, that he lives in, is extremely confined, and not proof against the weather.” His provisions are “scanty”; his health is “imperfect.”

Possibly, sir, your son, though a worthy, ingenious man, may not have resolution, or not that sort of resolution, that is necessary to encounter the difficulties incident to, and unavoidable in his present state of life.

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