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Title:
Letter from Thomas D. Wright to Richard Harvey Wright, January 9, 1888: Electronic Edition.
Author:
Wright, Thomas Davenport, 1854-1901
Wright, Richard Harvey, 1851-1929
Funder:
Funding by the Institute of Museum of Library Services (IMLS) and the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), with support provided through North Carolina ECHO.
Transcription Information:
Text transcribed by: Barbara Post
Images scanned by: Digital Production Center
Text encoded by: Katherine M. Wisser
Transcription Edition:
Edition: First edition,
Date: 2006
Publication Information:
Publisher: Duke University Libraries
Date: 2006
Availability: ©This work is the property of the Duke University Libraries. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching, and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text.
Source Information:
Title: Letter from Thomas D. Wright to Richard Harvey Wright, January 9, 1888
Author: Thomas D. Wright
Date: 18880109
Note: Thomas Wright has a gloomy outlook on tobacco sales and sees a grim future for his business. He ways to try a different approach but needs advice and cash from his brother, Richard Harvey Wright.
P: Richard Harvey Wright Papers, 1870-1952, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Class: Borrowing and lending -- 19th century
Class: Tobacco industry -- North Carolina -- Durham -- 19th century
Class: Business enterprises -- North Carolina -- Durham County
Class: Correspondence
Class: T. D. Wright and Company, leaf tobacco brokers
Class: Durham (N.C.) -- History
Class: Wright, Thomas Davenport, 1854-1901
Class: Wright, Richard Harvey, 1851-1929
Class: Durham (N.C.)
Class: Richmond (Va.)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Borrowing and lending -- 19th century
Tobacco industry -- North Carolina -- Durham -- 19th century
Business enterprises -- North Carolina -- Durham County
Correspondence
T. D. Wright and Company, leaf tobacco brokers
Durham (N.C.) -- History
Wright, Thomas Davenport, 1854-1901
Wright, Richard Harvey, 1851-1929
Durham (N.C.)
Richmond (Va.)

old man Tilly and improving the place I bot (Correction: bought). of Tilly, and take the deed in your own name, or take a mortgage on the place. Either way would be satisfactory to me. You will know I am making no money in tobacco the way I have been going on, and cant [sic] hope to make any. If I was on the place I got from Tilly, I could live with less expense, have it cultivated better, and with our farm in Person, feel that I could at least make a good support, and in the mean time I could nurse Pinkerton until he gets ready for me to buy for him, and see and write other manufacturers for orders. From my experience in tobacco, it is folly for a man to attempt a speculating business unless he has at least 25 or 30 thousand dollars and keep in shape all the time to take advantage of low prices &.c. I simply make known my thoughts to you and you can act as seems best and most profitable to you. I feel to night [sic] that I must and will go to work at something. If I am forced to go back to Person,

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