Two-page letter from A. J. Rux of Demopolis, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes of Richmond [Virginia] discussing financial difficulties and the poor slave trade market.
One-page letter from James W. McCrary in Greensboro, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond, Virginia], informing him that "no negroes [are] selling here at any price" citing the election of Abraham Lincoln as the reason.