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Dec 15^th [188]1

Messrs Hitchings & Co

Dear Sirs

You may
send us a No 18 Corrugated Fire
Box Boiler ^^complete at the price named in
your letter of Dec. 8^th &c ($325)
three hundred & twenty-five dollars
delivered in Boston free of charge,
it being of course understood that
the boiler is to be made of the
best of material & in the most thorough
& susbstantial way.

You say that it will take rather
more than two weeks to ship in N.18.
Provided I can get the boiler by the
15^th or 20^th of January at the latest
it will amswer, but it must not
be later than the last named date.

Will you kindly advise me as
to the size of flue in Chimney which
you find most advantageous for
a No. 18 Boiler, the height of the chimney
from the floor on which the boiler will
stand is 30 feet, a few feet above roof.

Also whether it is either advisable
or necessary to have a damper in
the chimney itself, this being one
in the boiler & of course if desirable
one can be put in the short piece of
pipe which connects the boiler & the
chimney.

Ys truly
J.W. Lovering
Supt.