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The old Vermont Windham County Farms have their barns all slated. Moreover there is much lumber on the Connecticut river. It come down from Bellow's Falls in rafts less than 1/2 mile long. unjointing at the rapids. Their shingle bunches are enough to make a Down Easter laugh. That | The old Vermont Windham County Farms have their barns all slated. Moreover there is much lumber on the Connecticut river. It come down from Bellow's Falls in rafts less than 1/2 mile long. unjointing at the rapids. Their shingle bunches are enough to make a Down Easter laugh. That Bangor shingles come to Springfield is a striking proof that the Conn. is not the Penobscot! 12 ms [[miles?]] below Gorenfield is quite a place. if you can send shingles there our folks are perfectly acquainted. I should think Fitchburg would be a good shingle market. Northfield has no Bank no business no building. If there were no Rail Road men about you would hardly find $100 in it except it might be in some old Woman's stocking! R.R. Sleepers Vt & Mass" use White Chestnut , seven & a half feet in length, six inches face & fill six inches." Said Sleepers are delivered here at twenty cents each.and [?] of said sleepers [graphic] [graphic] [graphic] [graphic]. Cedar would be preferred. Engineer perceiving me doing this same request to know for what price you would contract to deliver such Sleepers at Charleston. | ||
Say twenty or thirty thousand of them? Come tell us what you can afford. Delivered at Fitchburg R. R. Wharf Charleston. As for your opinion of individual humanity I suppose it can not be otherwise. It is the worst part of mercantile life. One is brought in contact only with the worst part of human nature. Of course is likely to form a poor opinion of it. | Say twenty or thirty thousand of them? Come tell us what you can afford. Delivered at Fitchburg R. R. Wharf Charleston. As for your opinion of individual humanity I suppose it can not be otherwise. It is the worst part of mercantile life. One is brought in contact only with the worst part of human nature. Of course is likely to form a poor opinion of it. | ||
What has become of the Greenleaf Boy whom you expected in your store? Which party did not suit? I suppose when you were in Mass. of course you were in Boston. Why did you not call upon Humphrey Stevens. He and others, too. would not | What has become of the Greenleaf Boy whom you expected in your store? Which party did not suit? I suppose when you were in Mass. of course you were in Boston. Why did you not call upon Humphrey Stevens. He and others, too. would not like it very well if they knew you were [in?] Boston without seeing him. You know his place do you not? However I think likely he has given up there now, is out of business, just now I guess. Have you been in a row lately? | ||
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The old Vermont Windham County Farms have their barns all slated. Moreover there is much lumber on the Connecticut river. It come down from Bellow's Falls in rafts less than 1/2 mile long. unjointing at the rapids. Their shingle bunches are enough to make a Down Easter laugh. That Bangor shingles come to Springfield is a striking proof that the Conn. is not the Penobscot! 12 ms miles? below Gorenfield is quite a place. if you can send shingles there our folks are perfectly acquainted. I should think Fitchburg would be a good shingle market. Northfield has no Bank no business no building. If there were no Rail Road men about you would hardly find $100 in it except it might be in some old Woman's stocking! R.R. Sleepers Vt & Mass" use White Chestnut , seven & a half feet in length, six inches face & fill six inches." Said Sleepers are delivered here at twenty cents each.and [?] of said sleepers [graphic] [graphic] [graphic] [graphic]. Cedar would be preferred. Engineer perceiving me doing this same request to know for what price you would contract to deliver such Sleepers at Charleston. Say twenty or thirty thousand of them? Come tell us what you can afford. Delivered at Fitchburg R. R. Wharf Charleston. As for your opinion of individual humanity I suppose it can not be otherwise. It is the worst part of mercantile life. One is brought in contact only with the worst part of human nature. Of course is likely to form a poor opinion of it. What has become of the Greenleaf Boy whom you expected in your store? Which party did not suit? I suppose when you were in Mass. of course you were in Boston. Why did you not call upon Humphrey Stevens. He and others, too. would not like it very well if they knew you were [in?] Boston without seeing him. You know his place do you not? However I think likely he has given up there now, is out of business, just now I guess. Have you been in a row lately?