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Rec’d at Geneva - / Mch 11 1837
New York Feb’y 27 1837
My dear Pierre
You need not suffer one mo- / ments uneasinefs on the score of Character from the / Judgement which you compel me to permit to be / recorded against you _ All your friends know, / and the public Records and newspapoers will demon - / strate to the work, that you have been guilty of / no other fault than ignorance of the Law, in not / knowing that upon the difsolution of a partnership / the dealers with a firm are entitled to specific notice / beyond what is given in the public Prints _ It suf - / efficiently appears that this Debt was constructed / with the firm to which you had belonged, long after / you had left it, but the Creditor, being been a / dealer of the firm while you was a member of it, / had a right in Law to a specific notice of the difso / -lition, and your sole offence is that you was / ignorant of that rule, and neglected, or rather / omitted to give the notice _ So according to my / Code of morals you stand pure as Snow.
I do not believe either that it is the / Intention of Mr Jackson to give you any trouble on / the
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The subject but merely to put the debt in the form / of a judgement, that it may avail hereafter in / Case you should become pofsefsed of the means of / payment. [Lord] scouted the Idea of molesting you / and spoke with great warmth when I intimated / an apprehension of it. No Judgement has been / recovered yet, and probably will not be in some time / to come
I have nothing interesting to say / to you _ Our last accounts from Mr Duer are only / to the 30 Dec’r _ I presume he is on the Continent. / He communicates nothing by matters of Businefs. / Not one single Line has he written to me since his / departure excepting one short note telling how much / he has to say + how happy he would be to say it / + promising by the next Packet to send a volume. / I sent him my last _ the last I mean to write / to him _ a few days ago in which I say that / I am tired of firing blank cartridges acorfs the / Atlantic without being able to provoke a shot in / return _
We are all Well _ remember / me affectionately to Anna + believe me my / dear Pierre
Your friend
B Robinson
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[ADDRESS]
The Rev’d
Pierre P Irving
Geneva
N.Y.
[POSTAGE STAMP - red ink, circle, with handwritten endorsement [“Mel”??]]
NEW YORK
FEB
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[??]Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
