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Thomas Holme proposes a newspaper exchange rather than frequent letters, as the post has become unreliable.
Date
3-17-1848
Keywords
Philander Chase, Thomas Holme, Illinois, England, newspaper, newspapers, post office, postal service, mail, postage
Recommended Citation
Holme, Thomas, "Letter to Philander Chase" (1848). Philander Chase Letters. 1330.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/1330
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E. Cowton March 17. 1849
Right Rev’d & Dear Sir
I wrote to you about the 20th Jan, saying that I had intrusted my Bankers to forward to you £20 -- of which £9.0.8 was intended for Mrs George & the remainder on J George’s acct at Jubilee -- As it seems the arrival of Letters is not quite to be depended upon[.] I think it will be better to write a few lines to repeat my previous notification. As the facility of communication between England & America is increased I hope that our epistolary intercourse may be more frequent -- to insure the delivery of our letters I think it will be better that we should neither of us prepay our letters. It seems also that Newspapers can be transmitted free of postage & I therefore propose sending you occasionally a newspaper from England & at the same time I should be glad each now and then to receive a Newspaper from Illinois & any little pamphlet which concerns your important Institution at Jubilee, as I may have it in my power to make it useful. That I may not miss the present post I must now conclude with assuring you that I am right Rev’d & dear Sir
Yours with affection & respect
Th. Holme
I send you an Ecclesiastical Gazette by the present post