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1797 Handcarried Letter V. Metcalfe to William Watts in Campbell County Virginia
1797 Handcarried Letter V. Metcalfe to William Watts in Campbell County Virginia
1797 Handcarried Letter V. Metcalfe to William Watts in Campbell County Virginia

1797 Handcarried Letter V. Metcalfe to William Watts in Campbell County Virginia

$ 56.62

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Condition: Used
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    Description

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    1797 Handcarried Letter to William Watts in Campbell County Virginia.
    V. Metcalfe sends this by hand delivery of Joel Adams who travels six days to wait to get from William Watts in Campbell County.  Edgewear and roughly opened at the sealing wax.
    Content as follows:
    "Feby 4, 1797 Dr. Sir, The bearer Mr. Adams waits on you & from your long silence respecting the belief I was to have had of you & supposed you to have found other market for it, as you mentioned delivering it in last month from yours and not doing so I supplied you with what I shall want, from an Expectation that you had other was disposed of it--the balance in your hands.  I will esteem a favor to pay to Mr. Adams who is not owing me & I will call on you for it, Your compliance will Oblige.  V. Metcalfe"
    On the reverse:
    Feby the 10th 1797, Recv'd of William Watts by virtue of the within order, fif-teen dollars for V. Metcalf, Joel Adams (Signed).
    A wonderful watermark in the paper - a Crown above "G.R." above "1795."
    This item was found in the 1770s-1790s William Watts papers of Prince William County Virginia.
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