MacKay_Letter_065
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Title
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MacKay_Letter_065
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Description
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Letter from a businessman in Canada to John McKay negotiating the sale of superfine flour from John McKay's flour mill. January 16, 1819.
Transcription:
Montreal Jany 16th 1819
John McKay Esq
Caledonia
Dear Sir
Being desirous to meet your wishes and to be a little in the way of flour from your country - we have [ammend?] two notes of five hundred dollars each one payable the first & the other the fifteenth day of June - the proved of which plees to convert in wheat - provided you can do it and give us at the opening navigation superfine flour - delivered onboard in the [urn?] for five dollars & there forth coovering storage [?] – and you guarantee the corporation in this province - we expect our market will be much th’s but for superfine therefore we wish no other-
If you can use these funds to advantage it is very likely we may wish to [?] the operation -
We are expecting superfine flour back and [?] will [?] pay from your country the coming season provided they are [?] on good terms with you - [the next very lines are some type of calculations that are illegible]
We are respectfully yours
Jas McDonelly
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Identifier
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MacKay_Letter_065.1-2.jpg
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Creator
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Kristen Walker
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Subject
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Letter
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Publisher
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Izzy Moyer; Kristen Walker; Jill Johnson; and Renee Guerin
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Date
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1819.01.16
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Date Created
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2023.10.30
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Type
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Correspondance
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Letter
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Format
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.jpg
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Medium
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Paper
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Rights Holder
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Genesee Country Village & Museum
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Rights
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