James Darrach letters to his wife Eliza

Seven ALS from James Darrach, a Philadelphia businessman, to his wife Eliza while on a business trip to New Orleans. Darrach travelled on horseback to Pittsburg and Louisville, and by boat down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Natchez and New Orleans, to acquire cotton and sugar which he shipped back to Pennsylvania. Darrach devotes the majority of his letters to lamenting his absence from his wife and family, and provides brief descriptions of the progress of his travel, hunting during the boat trips, acquiring meat from Indians, conducting his business, and witnessing the debauchery in New Orleans, "the Modern Sodom."