A. J. McElveen, Sumterville, S.C., autograph letter signed to Ziba B. Oakes, 9 September 1854
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No recent purchases; queries state of fever and market; Bob Cook desires some Negroes; prices in Richmond; gale at Charleston; G.W. White's commission for second hand piano.
The Ziba B. Oakes papers were found in a slave pen in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 20, 1865 by James Redpath. In April 1865, Redpath presented them to William Lloyd Garrison. The collection was donated to the Boston Public Library on November 11, 1891 by Francis Gardner Garrison.