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Ledger volume documenting cash receipts and expenditures from October 1, 1897 to September 1, 1898. Only the first fifty pages are used.

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Letter from Daniel S. Dickinson to John Clapp, Esq. of Norwich, Chenango County, New York. This letter was written shortly before Dickinson left Guilford in Chenango County, where he had been serving as postmaster, for Binghamton. He sends Clapp "an appointment for agent," and writes that once he is settled in Binghamton he will visit Clapp in Norwich and "will see all matters strait."

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Letter from Daniel S. Dickinson to Hon. T. H. Hubbard in Utica, Madison County, New York. Written from Binghamton, the letter concerns a delay in settling a debt.

Scope and Contents Letter from Sgt. Gerald B. "Jerry" Gibbs addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Opie of 20 Lawton Avenue in Binghamton. The letter is headed "India" and the author is necessarily vague about his location, noting that he has been moving frequently over the last two months and has now "left the monsoon country and am now in a hot, dry district" ... near "one of the best airbases in India and is much nicer than most places I have been, over here. The only bad feature is the heat or, if the wind blows...

Scope and Contents Nine letters between members of the Jones family of Alder Creek, Oneida County, New York. - July 30, 1915 letter from Elizabeth Jones to her son William: She reports that Sunday is Lucetta's birthday, and that the family has not attended church all summer but hopes that they might able be to go soon. In a second section of the letter, dated Sunday afternoon August 1, Elizabeth reports that the family have been to Remsen to see a doctor about Lucetta's illness and that he says she...

Scope and Contents Letter from G. W. Stevens to a "Friend Lucy," written from Alexandria, Virginia and apologizing for his previous letter, which had hurt her feelings. He writes that he does not remember exactly what he had written, but that he felt that she was perhaps "getting in a hurry," and that he did not intend to marry as soon as he got home, "for I intend to see more of this world if I do get out of this alive which I hope I may." He adds "But Can say this much truly, Lucy that you are the Choice of...

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Letter from Joshua Whitney of Binghamton to J. & P. Rapeleye, merchants of New York City. Whitney asks them to send by the bearer, a Doctor Doubleday, the prices of dry goods, crockery, "and any such information as you may think useful."