Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 043)

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Boston Jany. 30. 1862

Hon. R. C. Winthrop.

My dear Sir,

I ought ere this to have replied
to your punctual and obliging notes of the 16^th and
25^th just, in relation to the lot of the late Arnold
F. Welles, besides which I learn, you were at the
trouble to call twice at my office. I inferred from
the expression on the petition-"son and only sur-
viving child" - although the inference was not
a necessary one, that Mr Welles died intestate, leaving
but one child; and after learning there was a
will, had intended writing you that the affidavit
was not the proper course in such cases, when
I received your [?]

I have the proper extract from the Records at
the Probate office, and therefore need not trouble you
to send me a copy of the will, for the purpose of
making a record of the special transfer under the
operation of the will and in accordance with our by-laws.

This I can make. But if you will send me
the deed of the lot, I will endorse thereon the