Scope and Contents Scope and Contents This series of letters is concerned, among other problems, with the difficulty of meeting payments on Elm Grove, of a fight between two of their slaves, the treatment of one of the wives by slave husband and the imprisonment on the plantation of the two slaves. Effort to get a tooth pulled. Two doctors and, finally, "a shoemaker named Cease" were able to extract the tooth about a week after the first attempt was made. Alcoholism of a friend. Afflicting account of sister's...