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Memphis 26th June 1850Dear Father
Enclosed I send you a check for one hundred and ninty [ninety] five dollars for Mr Love on account of advances for Randolph , I presumed it had been sent long before this, but Mrs McGeehe had some reluctance to mention the case to Mr McGeehe & there you awaited the seeing of me to forward the mony [money] as she prefered [preferred] not to acqua[added: i]t him with the circumstances of the case &c [and et cetera] my ingagents [engagements] of home & the high stage of the waters have prevented me from seeing him untill [until] a few days since I left all well when I left home, have been down to the Miss [Mississippi] River plantation, my stand of cotton on that place some what injured by high water though I have some 200 or more acres of good stand My stand at Clear Creek a little over a half stand & at Pondu place about 3/4 of a stand, which is about a [unclear: pore ] specimen of the country and all some weeks later than usual, with an [added: extra] favourable [favorable] summer & fall the crop may reach last year, but the probabilities are that it cannot not be much over 1/2 of a full crop corn is only tolerable, please acknowledge the receipt of the draft Yours truly James Brown
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Col [Colonel] Joseph Brown [unclear: Cept ] MM Lane Cave Springs P.O. [Post Office] Maury County Tenness [Tennessee][added: James Brown letter 26 June 1850 $195.] [added: answered on its reception 1st July 1850 postmark]
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