Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892
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New-York, Mar. 9, '47
Gov. Swain:
Dear Sir:
Mr. Ripley and
Alex. Smith
, Seedsmen,
388 Broadway, are both upon the look-out for a gardener. At 10 this morning,
a
Mr. James Barry
called from
Smith
.
Barry requires, in addition to the $400, a
house, kitchen, sitting room and one bed room,
fuel, and
vegetables with milk. I was writing his terms out, when Mr. Ripley came in with an
application from an "English Gardener", who will call upon
me tomorrow, and who will accept of the $400 without other
provision. As this last applicant is so ready,
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and quite as able (as represented by Mr. Ripley as
Barry, perhaps, I have almost determined to send
him on at once, so that you will
suffer no more
delay, and if you find him the right sort of man, you will cheerfully add
his road expenses to the 400, but this will be at your option.
Wednesday, 6 P.M. Since writing the above I have seen Mr.
John Loader
, with Mr. Ripley, and have
agreed with him, the said
Loader
, that he shall set out for
Chapel Hill on Monday or
Tuesday next, 15 or 16
th March, and that you will pay
him twenty dollars when he arrives at
Chapel Hill for road expenses the same
not to be subtracted from his salary of 400 per
year. The engagement to continue for one year from the time
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of his leaving
New York, and longer if you should agree
together.
Mr. Loader
has letters
from
England having
been employed at
Lion House in the botanic garden of His Grace the Duke of
Northumberland,
1 and Mr. Ripley speaks well of him; in his opinion as
fitting for your purposes as either Cavanaugh or M
cLaughlin.
Trusting, that we shall not be deceived again, as in the case of McLaughlin; I remain