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Sarah Jackson to Andrew Jackson III
Clifton Febry 19th /59
My darling Son,
You will percieve that I am now with our dear Sam. we left home (your Pa, Aunt Marion and myself) on the first of this month, and reached this place on Friday morning. we remained at New Orleans one day and night and one night at the Bay. we found Samuel quite well, with his little family of cats and dogs around him as usual. he	is busy	building cabbins for	the	negroes,	(we
brought	in all, 2 0	down with us) and preparing	for	his crop	we
expect to remain here until the last of May, and hope your Pa will then be able to employ an overseer, and that will enable Sam to go up with us and to remain until fall. Pa has promised to give Sam the Kentucky mines, and with them to purchase a place for him on the Hiwassy River, in East Tenn. if he likes it, and to establish a stock and grain farm there. this will be determined on in the summer then Sam says he will expect you to resign and to come there to his mountain home and live with him. You are	often the	subject	of our conversation,	we	are at a	loss
to know	the cause	of your	long silence. I have had but one
letter from you since you left us in December?do write, and relieve my anxiety. God grant all is well, with you. direct to the Care of Sami Jackson Pearlington, Hancock County Mississippi, the Beppo office is done away Majr & Mrs Claibourn, also Mr Ogden, Spoke very flatteringly of you. Mr Willis Claibourn also enquired very kindly after you. he is quite sick with cold, is threatined with consumption I fear. he appears to be a little uneasy about himself. I left our dear Sissy and her sweet little