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London & Provincial Joint Stock Life Office, No. 39 Nicholas Lane, Lombard Street, London day and month of date filled in by hand: 5 Oct. 1848

Dear Mr. Ruxton: I am obliged to you for your communication of this day. It is too apparent now that he is dead & buried — the New York Herald, which the Halifax Mercury Courier copied places it beyond doubt — I had yesterday a hope for I hunted out a Mr. Brown from the State of Illinois & I found that less 1/2 an hour would convey anyone from that state to St Louis so that Capt. Cathcart was most likely at