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ADVERTISE ENT I .PARED TO 6 JELL ADELBERT AMES HOUSE AT BAY LT. LOUIS September ? 1876
Letter from Mrs. Blanche Butler Ames at Lowell, Mass., to her husband, former Republican carpet-bagger Governor of Mississippi now at his flour mill in Northfield, Minn., September 21, 1876
". . . Are you going to advertise the house at Bay St.
Louis ? I have written oneto bring the matter undsr your consideration. Hera it is:
'"Vinter residence in the South. For sale or rent. At .Bay St. Louis. VJithin two hours
and a half of New Orleans. The sea-side residence
of Governor Ames of Mississippi. It is a new and
pleasant house with grounds and out buildings,
and is within a few rods of the water. Eay St.
Louis is an old French town. Orange culture and
fishing are the principle employment of the people.
The climate is considered equal to that of Florida.
Rent for six months ending May 1st ^300.
Price ?6,000. For further particulars inquire
of Paul Butler, Lowell Cartridge Co., Lovell, Mass,''
I'am enough in earnest to desire you to write the advertisement rightly and let me have it inserted in the Boston papers. Anyone reading it and seeing that it is your house vill say "Well he had some property in the state, if he vas a carpet bagger.'1
(copied by M. James Stevens from
"CHRONICLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY:
Family letters of Blanche Butler and Adelbert Ames
?	married July 21, 1870. Compiled by Blanche Eutler Ames, 1935 Vol. II 1871+-1899. Privately printed 1957 Pages b22>-^2b)
Gent. 27, 1876, Gen. Adelbert Ames agreed to advertis? with dropping of mention of himself in ad. He planned to advertise in Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis and St* Paul.