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Description

Receipt of £100 from Lord Kenyon.

Date

6-1-1846

Keywords

Philander Chase, Lord Kenyon, finances, money

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New York 1 June 1846

Rt Rev’d Bishop Chace[sic]

Robins Nest Illinois

Sir

We enclose a letter to you address from Lord Kenyon, by whom through an [house] in [Sporl] we have been requested to transmit you £100 statuary; which we now do in the enclo[sed] certificate of deposit No. 73 Merchants Bank [p] $484.44 say Four hundred and Eighty four 44/100 dollars being £100 [sty] with Exchange 9%. We shall be obliged by your acknowledging receipt of the same--

We remain Sir

[Yours] very [respy.]

[Sam] Fuller

Letter to Philander Chase

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