A receipt for $12 from William Ball, executor of the estate of Eliza Ball to Catharine Poyas for the shares in the South Western Rail Road Bank and the South Carolina Rail Road.
A letter from Alwyn Ball in New York to his cousin William Ball in South Carolina asking for financial help, having to sell furniture to "keep the wolf from our door," getting into a retail butter stand, spending one and a half years in an asylum for drinking, and not receiving any assistance from other friends and colleagues.
