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Bean family letters, 1868-1898
1869-08-24 Page 03
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Iowa State Register containing a discription of this place. If the prospects of the town look as well when I get there as it reads I will undoubtedly select it for my point. Dr. Howell has been urging me to come for nearly ten months past. He seems very anxious that I should join him in practice. If you have not succeeded in investing the money satisfactorily before you get this letter, you need not try it any more, as I shall want some of it when I come home, and the rest of it in the spring. I cannot understand why Watt should insist on a warranty deed from us of Uncle James' house and lot without there is something wrong in some of the older conveyences in which case I shall certainly refuse. It seems to me absurd for a lawyer to send us such a deed as was sent to me here. I signed it as I explained because owing to the great distance I am away Watt ought to have the benefit of it if it could be used. I returned it with my objections a copy of which I have retained. Watt ought at least to have answered me or to have replied to a subsequent letter when I sent him
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Iowa State Register containing a discription of this place. If the prospects of the town look as well when I get there as it reads I will undoubtedly select it for my point. Dr. Howell has been urging me to come for nearly ten months past. He seems very anxious that I should join him in practice. If you have not succeeded in investing the money satisfactorily before you get this letter, you need not try it any more, as I shall want some of it when I come home, and the rest of it in the spring. I cannot understand why Watt should insist on a warranty deed from us of Uncle James' house and lot without there is something wrong in some of the older conveyences in which case I shall certainly refuse. It seems to me absurd for a lawyer to send us such a deed as was sent to me here. I signed it as I explained because owing to the great distance I am away Watt ought to have the benefit of it if it could be used. I returned it with my objections a copy of which I have retained. Watt ought at least to have answered me or to have replied to a subsequent letter when I sent him
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