This letter, dated August 18, 1860 by John R. Beaty to Dr. James H. Norman, is the first of three letters in which Beaty gives a colorful description of a trip to the upstate resort of Williamston Spring, South Carolina. This letter describes the first leg of the trip from Conwayborough (Conway, South Carolina) to Fair Bluff, North Carolina where he boards a train for the second leg of the trip to Columbia, South Carolina and then on to Williamston Spring.
