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Grenville M. Dodge correspondence with Thomas C. Durant, Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1858
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[top left corner is embossed with picture and [B? P? R?] & S] [letterhead under here:] BANKING HOUSE OF BALDWIN & DODGE, Council Bluffs, Iowa, [letterhead above here] November 25 1858 Thos. C Darant Esquire Dear Sir I intended to send our Bonds by this Express, but owing to the sickness of [our?] Judge I cannot do it after you left he got out a few [days?] and signed about $50000 but since that he has been down sick, unable to execute those already signed or sign [mine? more?] and now he and his whole family are down -- one lying at the point of Death, hence my inability to send as I promised as soon as the Judge gets up we will send them already
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[top left corner is embossed with picture and [B? P? R?] & S] [letterhead under here:] BANKING HOUSE OF BALDWIN & DODGE, Council Bluffs, Iowa, [letterhead above here] November 25 1858 Thos. C Darant Esquire Dear Sir I intended to send our Bonds by this Express, but owing to the sickness of [our?] Judge I cannot do it after you left he got out a few [days?] and signed about $50000 but since that he has been down sick, unable to execute those already signed or sign [mine? more?] and now he and his whole family are down -- one lying at the point of Death, hence my inability to send as I promised as soon as the Judge gets up we will send them already
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