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Samuel Jackson to Rachel Jackson Lawrence
Clifton Plantation June 3d 1857
Dear Sister
You see I still continue' writting to you and I will continue till I receive orders to stop, from you. I have been looking for your long promised favour with untiring interest, but I begin to think it is all in vain, is it your time is so much engaged?	or
what does keep you so long silent? I know it would give	me
infinite pleasure to here from you. this is the third letter I have written to you, and do insist in your answering this. P left here on last sunday whome I suppose you have seen e1 re this. I hope he arrived safe, he made a short stay, it seems as if he scarsely arrived before he had disappeared. How does he seem to like the appearence of the crop. I though he was displeased, with it. I think it is doing very nice considering the bad wether we have had. And we are far ahead of Col Claiborne, although Pa did not think so. Col Claiborne says we are four weeks ahead of him. I guess you saw some of the cotton Pa took up with him it is still doing well. How do you progress with your house? It is a beautiful spot. If you would take my advice you would never leave old Tennessee, although I would give world to have you near us, it is a beautiful place at the Bay of St Louis, but I think nothing to compare with our old home. And I do not belive there is a nother such place in the world like it.
I am so closely confined here. I never here of any news, so I hope you will take the will for the deed. I am going up	to
Gainsville on next monday, that is the county seat. And	I wish
to see something of the people in this part of the country. What