SD782. Edward Moulton-Barrett (brother) to Samuel Moulton-Barrett (uncle)

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 3, 328 (in part).

[Cambridge Estates, Jamaica]

6 December 1834

The people upon both estates are behaving as well, if not better, than ever. Here they turn out much more regularly than they did under the management of Mr. Day; and at Oxford, Mr. Phillpotts complains that the apprentices fairly bully him to employ them on their own days. They say that you are anxious that they should be hired, but that the overseer begrudges them the money, which you have put in his hands for that purpose. I have but little doubt that during crop you may command as much of the time of the apprentices upon both estates, either by night or day, as you may think it expedient to pay for.

Text: Marks, p. 445.

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