1 ” ” very fine 60.00 232.50 1 blind, large size 10.00 1 pair blinds to match 10.00 1 dozen 40 inch stair rods 6.50 Box. 1.75 28.28 1,339.50 Insurance for Bonaffee at $400 ” Milo 900 ” Jno Sergeant 300 $1,600 @ 1½% $24 Policy 1 25.00 $1,364.50 Received payment, Geo. W. South, January 14, 1836. All the goods mentioned in the above invoice arrived safely in New Orleans, but when they were reshipped on river steamboats to Nashville a large part of the goods was lost when the _John Randolph_ burned at the wharf in Nashville on May 16, 1836. The _John Randolph_ carried eighteen crates of the new Hermitage furniture, including the famous Telemachus paper, and this loss coming close on the heels of the loss of his house must have been sorely discouraging to the old man. But he promptly, upon receipt of the bad news, wrote Andrew to check up the bills of lading and let him know just what parcels were burned so that he could reorder them in Philadelphia. His letter closes on a pathetic note: “This catastrophe will make it necessary that I should have more means, and in one of my letters I said to you to inquire whether the tract in the Western District, or part of it, could be sold and for what. You told me some time ago that there was a man would give five dollars per acre for 400 acres. If you can get that for it in cash I authorize you to sell it. You can say with truth that I had declined taking that offer for it because it was too low; but the burning of my house, and now my furniture, makes it necessary for me to sell.”