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Cincinnati February the 17th, 1798
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[handwritten] Cincinnati February the 17th, 1798
  
 
My Dear Sir
 
My Dear Sir
  
       Last night I had the pleasure to
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[stamp] Received
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from
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State Dep't.
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Nov. 24, 1894.
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B..O. 401310.       [handwritten] Last night I had the pleasure to
 
receive your two favours of the 12th and 16th
 
receive your two favours of the 12th and 16th
bus: always participating in the good () ()
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viz: always participating in the good of my
satisfactions that () it had () you a ()
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friends and community I learned with ( )
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satisfaction that Mrs H had given you a ( )
 
my felicitations are most cordially presented
 
my felicitations are most cordially presented
()
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Thereupon
 
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I am well pleased that the tea concern has in
    I am well pleased that the  
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its ( ) met your approbation and ( )
its  
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cheerfully at all times promote your interests
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as much as I can ---
() as I can.
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The Information of the big Bill has relieved me
 
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from a Load of Anxiety as you will find from
    Our Friend Col Pickering
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the receipt of the same of mine before this can
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reach you --
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Our Friend Col Pickering whom I really much
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esteem and respect showed certainly notice
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my remittance and the abundance of writing
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I have made unto him __ I am flattered by the
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assurance (even from you) "that my late Adminis=
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(')=tration of the Government has given great Satisfac=
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(')=tion" but the same should have come from his