Address fold of Sam'l G. Barker letter — 'To Miss Lydia C. Gaillard, Rocks'

The reverse / address-fold side of the Sam’l G. Barker letter on page 069. The sheet is otherwise blank; the three-line address is written across the central fold, sideways, in brown ink. The recipient is Lydia C. Gaillard, and the destination is ‘Rocks’ — almost certainly The Rocks plantation, a Gaillard family seat on the Cooper River in St. John’s Berkeley Parish, SC.

“Rocks” is shorthand for The Rocks plantation on the Cooper River in St. John’s Berkeley Parish, SC — a Gaillard family property in the 19th century. Lydia C. Gaillard’s exact place in the Gaillard tree is not yet fixed in the archive; she is addressed familiarly as ‘Lyd’ by Samuel Gaillard Barker (Henrietta Catherine Gaillard Barker’s eldest son), which places her as a Gaillard cousin in his generation or the next. The letter would have been folded and sealed (no envelope) and carried by hand or by post to the recipient — the wax-seal trace visible on p069 corresponds to where the folded packet would have been sealed shut on this face.