Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 463)

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Sept 16^th [186]9

W.L. Hanscom Esq

Dear Sir,

I enclosed certain bills to you
last year, but learned soon that you had
gone to Europe, to be absent several months.
Hoping that you might call here when in Boston
I have not so far sent again. I am however
very anxious to close up certain old accts,
and trust therefore that you will so far as
your lot is that of Mr Farrar is concerned,
enable me to do so.

My predecessor's clerk made certain errors
in charges on your account by reason of the number
of your lot being accidentally included with lots
3208-11 (the Hitchcock brothers) where a charge of $36.00
was divided between their four lots & yours, instead
of their four alone. That made bill of $7.20
apparently for care of lot 2903 for 1867. You paid
that charge to me by mistake instead of your
regular bill for both lots of $12.00: and Bond's
clerk had credited you already with 7.20 by
mistake -- the ^⁴ Hitchcocks paying 36.00 or 9.00
each, and they were each credited 7.20 &
you 7.20 -- He erroneously credited the
amount to you, they having paid [?]