Letter to Laura Ann Arnold (Jackson)

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Box 2, Folder 33

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Written from Lexington, Virginia. Letter regards furniture purchases.

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English

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Home Sept. 24th, 1860

My dear Sister,
Your very welcome letter reached me on Saturday and I was enabled to borrow the necessary money from the Bank, and I forwarded a draft this morning in a letter to Mr. Madden requesting him to purchase the carpet & stair rods and to forward all by the 1st packet to J. Arnold, Beverly Randolph County Virginia, to the care of R. L. Heavener & John Gephart box no. 320 Baltimore Street Baltimore, Maryland. I told him to send the lounge opening out at $6. I also specified green as the color. You did not mention the color in your letter, but I thought that you were pleased with ours. I regard it as very cheap, it is not so showy as ours, but I would much prefer it, as I think it is a serviceable one; whereas ours has proved to be a great cheat' having been bought at a N.Y. auction I might have expected it to turn out badly. As you request a Bible instead of the oil cloth I conform very willingly to your wishes and the account will then stand

Centre table 9. Boxing table .75
Bedstead 14. " Bedstead 2.00
Bureau 25 " Bureau 1.50
Wash Stand 15 " Wash Stand 1.00
Tate a Tete 18 " Sofa 1.50
Lounge 6 " Quartets .50
Quartets 5 " Lounge 1.00
10 yd Carpet 8.25
at 62 ½ 6.25
18 stair rods 4.28
Boxing 8.25
110.78

In order to get a draft on N.Y. I had to pay one dollar and eleven cents making in all one hundred and eleven dollars and eighty nine cents. Deducting from this the amount you sent me fifty five dollars leaves fifty six dollars and 89 cents adding to this the price of the oil cloth 7.50 makes the total amount sixty four dollars & 39 cents. There are 10 yards of oil cloth at 75 cents per yard.

In order to get a new draft from a Bank the person to whom the Bank gave the draft had to inform the Bank that the draft has been lost or mislaid as the case may be and satisfy the Banking officer that he is acting honestly in the matter. If our Bank were to give me a draft & I should lose it all I would have to do would be to go to the cashier of the Bank & tell him that the draft was lost & request him to give me another which he would do and he would then write to the Bank that was to pay the draft & tell it not to pay the first draft. If he thought it necessary. So if the draft sent me was given to Col. Goff ask him to write to the Bank & request another draft stating that the first has been lost or mislaid. If the cashier of the Bank does not know Col. Goff then the Col. had better enclose his letter to some friend in whom the Bank has confidence and let this friend present it to the Bank so that the Bank may be satisfied that all is right. I regret to give you so much trouble.

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Financial records

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