William C. Bee & Co. Wilmington, NC 7/21/1864 Letter to T. A. LaFar, Richmond

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From the personal wartime papers of Dr. Theodore. A. LaFar of Charleston, South Carolina (born 14 October 1831 in Charleston and died 28 December 1912 in Chattachoochee, Florida and buried in the French Protestant Huguenot Cemetery in Charleston).
A Google search reveals the 1890 proceedings of the South Carolina legislature that accepted four South Carolina Confederate Battle Flags from Dr. LaFar on December 22, 1890 .  According to the minutes of the Legislature, LaFar had fled Richmond on April 2, 1865 and taken the flags with him.  The Legislature recognized and summarized his service as Director of the South Carolina Hospital Bureau ("SCHB").  Duties of the SCHB included "forwarding packages to soldiers in the field, establishing state hospitals, aiding prisoners in the hands of the enemy, receive the wounded after battle and to 'succor' a South Carolina soldier wherever found."
Established in the 1840s in Charleston, South Carolina as cotton and rice buyers and sellers, William C. Bee & Company was the agent for the Importing & Exporting Co. of South Carolina, which was organized to run the Union blockades of North Carolina to trade with Great Britain via the West Indies to bring goods to the Confederacy.
This is a William C. Bee & Co. letter datelined "Wilmington, 21 July 1864" addressed T. A. LaFar in Richmond concerning goods being ordered/delivered to the South Carolina Hospital Bureau.  Dr. LaFar kept this letter in his personal papers.  It was mounted in the 19th century on ruled paper.  Their may be separation on the original folds.
Text as follows:
Wilmington 21 July 1864
Dr. T. A. Lafar
So Ca Hospital
Bureau
No 81 Main Street
Richmond
Dear Sir
Since
writing you a few days ago the
Express has consented to take
the Bbl of Whiskey & I have
shipped it to day.
We have not been able to
get any Tea, but will forward
a chest as soon as it can be procured.
We remain,
Very Respectfully,
Wm C. Bee/o
Numerous Internet references are found - mostly institutional - are found to William C. Bee & Company being what appears to be the most famous of the Confederate blockade running companies in Wilmington and Charleston.
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