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Promissory Note, States Rights Gist Is Lender. 1859., States Rights Gist

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Promissory note for payment of States Rights for $56.34. 1859

Letter From Augustin Hibbard To [Ashley & William Hibbard] Feb. 7, Augustin Hibbard

Gold Rush Life

Fort Townsend, Washington Territory

Feby [February] 7^th 1859

Dear Brothers,

It is now more than two years since I have received a letter from you, or have written to you. This is not right, we should correspond once a year at the least, but I suppose that you like myself, have been your whole time, so occupied with business, that although you have often thought of me, and, determined to write to me when you would have leisure, yet the time has insensibly passed away, and the letters are still unwritten. I do not seek to excuse myself but …