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Philander Chase informs Joshua Sands that he is returning the hundred pounds sent to him by Lord Kenyon.
Date
6-12-1846
Keywords
Philander Chase, Lord Kenyon, Joshua Sands, Adam Hodgson, finances, money
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Chase, Philander, "Letter to Joshua Sands" (1846). Philander Chase Letters. 1271.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/1271
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Illinois
12. June 1846
Jubilee College
To Joshua Sands Esqr
New York
D’r Sir
My excellent & most esteemed Friend Lord Kenyon sent me thro’ you 100£ Sterling-- the rec’t of which I acknowledged by last mail.
Since having perused his Lordship[‘s] kind letter I find he laboured under a mistaken apprehension of the meaning of my last letter to him.
I feel myself therefore in honour bound to return the same subject to his Lordships order--of which he is already advised by me your’s[sic]
Ph’r Chase