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Correspondence from William F. Chambers to Thomas Clark Durant requesting financial assistance, March 29, 1871, Brooklyn, New York

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No. 615 De Kalb Ave. Brooklyn, N.Y March 29th /71 Thos C. Durant Esqr. [Dr Sir?] and the best and kind friend. The present month has been a terrible trying time with me and the sufferings that I have endured have been great but I have been patient and have prayed that the warm weather would soon come again so that I would be able to labor once more for my wife and children by selling paper. My wife who has nearly worked herself down sick by washing during my inability and helplesness still gives all her efforts but her earnings is scarcely enough to feed our little children and really find
 
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