Robert Carter writes to London merchant Thomas Corbin thanking him for letters concerning the sales of tobacco belonging to the estate of Ralph Wormeley and for the good news of the progress of Wormeley's sons, then in England at school. He reports that the ships that have recently arrived need to wait until next season for a good crop of tobacco to fill their holds, but will sail with the fleet as ordered. Corbin's cousin and daughter of Ralph Wormeley, Elizabeth, has married John Lomax, a recent emigrant from England. Finally, he notes that he has recently shipped a small quantity of Wormeley estate tobacco to another merchant because it could not have been sent otherwise.

     Some of those sevll. Letters you mention I ha[d, particu]
=larly that wherein you send an Accot. of the [sales]
you have had from the Estate of Esqr. . Wormeley [Thanks]
to you for yor. News, very glad to hear of the [progress the]
Wormeleys Sons makes, Sorry to find both from [you and]
others Harry Armstead like to gain little by [going to]
England, The Fleet now come in a great m[any of]
them Wee all believe must lye for a New Cropp, [they]
will get way wth. their Convoy if they keep to t[heir]
Orders. Your Cozn . Betty Wormeley is lately marr[ied to your]
Own Doctor Lomax , Came in in [John] Burford two Y[ears]
agoe, Suppose e're long he will Demand his M[arriage]
portion, I have lately Shipt a small matter of the [tobacco]
belonging to the Estate wch. Could not have Freighted unl[ess I]
had Consign'd it to Mr. Mathews I am Sr.