A letter from Stoke Plantation overseer Thomas Finklea to John Ball in Charleston discussing the corn crop, raising the riverbank, the poor health of numerous enslaved persons, the work of Scipio and Pompey with the cattle, the birth of two enslaved children from the enslaved women Belle and Elsey, the death of a sow from a snake bite, the "stoke negro houses," an inventory of cattle and the chimney getting struck by lightning.
Two sketches titled "Ashley River, Near Charleston" and "Charleston, from the Bay" by Harry Fenn from Appleton's Journal of Literature, Science, and Art. "Ashley River, Near Charleston" depicts people and animals aboard a boat on the bank of the Ashley River, and "Charleston, from the Bay" shows a birds-eye view of the Charleston Battery and harbor.
