Scope and Contents Most letters discuss financial transactions in the form of transfer and forwarding money, settling debts, collecting rent and interest, bonds; and the purchase of land. One letter includes the exact dimensions and price of a barn being built for W. Sterrett. Later letters provide instructions about filling out bank checks. J. Stuart Thornton declares that "the board of Publik [sic] works have [sic] mentioned Point Pleasant as a place that will be of considerable importance," suggesting an...