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Aug 19th 8.

George B. Lincoln Esq.

Dear Sir

I deem it an appropriate moment to invite your co-operation in the labours of this society, having for their object the amelioration of the sufferings of the brute creation, by the practice of humane treatment of them; and the consequent moral elevation of their masters.

It would be taxing your valuable time too [greatly?], to give in detail, the effort we have made modify the conditions of animals while in course