New York, Mch. 10, 1865.
Dear Manahan:
It is said Fredericksburg and tobacco is captured. I feared this.
Have written to Maddox and sent him a copy of contract. I enclose yours.
Now it is for you to go to work at once and see that this property is taken care of. I believe you will both do it; see to it that no innocent parties suffer. Act promptly, for I assured my friends that the property was safe at that point, and I did it on your representations. Let me hear from you, care of Burnett & Funkhouser, this city.
Yours truly, M. E. Martin.
Baltimore, Md.,
Dec. 8th, 1864.
I hereby agree to deliver to Mess. Maddox & Manahan, during the month of Feby. and March, 1865, at Fredericksburg, Virginia, on the Rappahannock River, Four Thousand Boxes (4,000) of good sound merchantable tobacco, to be paid for on delivery, by my Agents at said point, in United States currency, at the rate of Forty-seven and a half (47½) Cents per pound.
Said tobacco to be of the quality known as good manufactured Virginia Leaf. I reserve to myself the privilege of increasing the quantity to 5,000 boxes, if I see proper.
(Signed) M. E. Martin.