Subject: Capital investments

Three and a half page letter written by Horace E. Baldwin in New York City to Charles Tobias in New Orleans on April 18, 1851. Baldwin details his continued illness, his absence from the office, and presses for a third-party capital infusion. The letter also discusses accounts. Horace E. Baldwin was a partner in Taylor, Baldwin and Co. in Newark, NJ, before moving to New Orleans in 1842, and remained there until at least 1853.