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Received on February 4th. 1840.
My dear Mary.
I enclose a precious little billet which I received a day or two since and which I beg you to lorck up [company?] with my fifty guinea medal. I had some thoughts of having it treasured up among my papers in your fathers iron chest, but conflagrations are so frequent down here that I feared it might be burnt up.
Your afft uncle
W.I.
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Miss Mary Irving
(confidential)
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Marisa CalderioLanguage
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Washington Irving. Letters. Volume Ill, 1839-1845. Aderman, Ralph M., Kleinfield, Herbert L. and Jenifer S. Banks. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982, p. 37.
