James Barron Hope,no place, to Jane A. (Barron) Hope, no place

Abstract

Autograph Letter Signed. His ship's neat and warlike appearance; Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and "the peculiarities of these Negro Legislators, & their country"; encounters a funeral; dismisses the "free and easy, devil-may-care habits of these places"; wants her to write him at his next destination, Pensacola, [Florida]; a dispatch just arrived informing the crew that "the Commodore [?]" is in a nearby town; details his efforts to become a good and moral man.