A letter from Elias Ball II at Kensington Plantation to his son John Ball in Charleston, South Carolina offering advice on how to deal with business and "bad company."
A letter from John Ball in Charleston, South Carolina to his son John Ball Jr. at Harvard College in Massachusetts discussing family matters and business.
A torn letter from John Ball to his son John Ball Jr. at Harvard College in Massachusetts discussing letter writing, business, the rice crop, and the weather.
A letter from Matthew Bryan to John Ball Jr. discussing his nephew Henry Bryan traveling to South Carolina, ideas of establishing a trade of goods, a request for blankets for enslaved persons , the cost of exporting "negro cloth," and details on the manufacturing business.
A letter from B. Slade to Isaac Ball in Charleston, South Carolina discussing John Ball Sr.'s will, the sale of Kensington and Hyde Park Plantations along with the enslaved persons living there, other family matters, a trip to England, Slade's unemployment, and the current situation for the trade business.
