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A letter from J[oh]n Drayton to James Glen, wishing his friends "your side the water the Compliments of the approaching Season & a Happy New Year," informing him--"I hear but poor performances of Charles in the Progress he has made in the Science he has chosen," stating - "Hard is it for me Endeavouring to give my Children Education at a great expence and so many years spent on Charles's Education & yet he is not able to go through the least part of his Examination at the College," discussing his son's opportunities and his rejection of the branches of medicine in greatest demand in S. C., explaining that he had given Charles £250 since October 1768 and exclaiming - "Charles little knows the many hot summers day I have been out in the field broiling my Head, while he is spending with ease & pleasure what I so hard fatigued for," rejecting Glen's statement that Charles was spending his own money and advising that Charles' African American slaves "for several years...have not made forty barrels of rice," asserting that his son was not grateful--"I have but two letters from him I know nothing of his motions," remarking that Charles could have married a girl of "fine fortune" if he had not stayed away so long--"there was many then in the market but none now," also conveying discouraging reports of Glenn -"he is wild & ungovernable, his Governor has no sway or Power over him," thanking Glen for his "care...

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