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Approximately 7.75\" by 5\"
Original handwritten manuscript letter dated October 23, 1869, written in Meriden, Connecticut and addressed to J. Hestor of Manchester.
The letter concerns a shipment of cheese and related payment or accounting. The writer notes that the cheese arrived during the first of the week, made at the last of August, and states that payment cannot be settled until it arrives. The writer estimates the value at about $28.
These types of everyday 19th-century agricultural and commercial letters provide interesting insight into the regional dairy trade and merchant correspondence in post-Civil War New England.
Signed:
J. Hestor
Address panel reads:
J. Hestor
Manchester
Oct 23, 1869
