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  • GW kept replies to these reports out of his official letterbook, as they were purely personal.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • GW kept replies to these reports out of his official letterbook, as they were purely personal.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • GW kept replies to these reports out of his official letterbook, as they were purely personal.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • GW kept replies to these reports out of his official letterbook, as they were purely personal.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Richard Woodhouse's letterbook; Rollins gives a slightly different rendition of the same ms.

    Notes on 'Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound' 2008

  • The company letterbook provides further evidence of arrangements made by fishing servants to send money home or have wages paid to wives or other family members in the home country. 22 While these letters are sporadic and do not designate the use of the money, there can be little doubt that in some cases, remitted wages would have helped to pay passage for family members — male and female — to Newfoundland.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • Note 105: PANL, GN 2/1/A, vol. 11, 388-89, Petition from the merchants and principal inhabitants of Ferryland to Elliot, undated (likely received by the governor in early October 1788, given its placement in the letterbook and the fact that the governor responded to it on 9 October 1788). back

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • The letterbook of Saunders and Sweetman for 1788-1804 indicates a general reluctance of servants to return to Ireland, especially from 1789 onwards,61 and the Pole Papers indicate that, while large numbers of servants were still being hired in the fishery in Ferryland district in 1800, many had "dieted" during the winter of 1799-1800.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • A different perspective on some less eventful passages can be gained by reviewing the letterbook of Edward Kough, a merchant of New Ross who was involved in the provisions and passenger trade with ports in Newfoundland (including, over time, St. John's, Ferryland, and Placentia).

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 26 February 1783, letterbook copy.

    Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 26 February 1783, letterbook copy 1993

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