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2  Typed Letters, one Signed, one unsigned. On business stationery. 1pg. each. With original mailing envelope. To Dr. E. Stratton, Chinese Camp, California.

British-born George Jeffries White, who had managed mining companies in Colorado before trying his luck in Mexico, first offers business advice for American investment in southern Mexican mining, Haciendas, cattle ranches,  agricultural and timber land, then months later, laments that he had ever come to this “impossible” unhealthy country, where there was “no money to be made” in the midst of political chaos, leaving him and his wife broke and sick.
 

It was three years since the revolutionary overthrow of the old dictator Diaz; a democratically-elected President had just been assassinated, weeks after White's arrival, replaced by a reactionary General who was shunned by Washington and opposed by radical revolutionaries in the north and south, including the area where the unfortunate engineer had come to seek his fortune. He fled back to the US a week later.