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Rights
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Permission to publish from the Historical Library of the Religious Society of Friends in Dublin
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Publisher
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University of Galway
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Format
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JPG
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Type
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Manuscript
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Number of pages
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3
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Source
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Historical Library of the Religious Society of Friends in Dublin
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Creator
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James Jenkinson Wright
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Identifier
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Portfolio 35X_L33
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Date
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1837-10-26
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Surname
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Wright
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Firstname
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James Jenkinson
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Title
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James J. Wright, Sophie Estate, to Jonathan Wright, attention, Mr. Nehemiah Wright, Christ Church Place, Dublin, Ireland
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Translator
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Kerby A. Miller, Patricia Miller
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Description
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James J. Wright, Sophie Estate, to Jonathan Wright, attention, Mr. Nehemiah Wright, Christ Church Place, Dublin, Ireland
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Transcript
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001
Sophie Estate October 26, 1837
Jonathan Wright Esq.
My Dear Cousin,
Since I had last this pleasure in reply to your esteemed letter of March 31 1836 I have not had the gratification of receiving a line from you, but I suppose as I did not execute your request agreeably to my promise, that you determined to write me no more, but I have to say in excuse for my delay that, probably without any exaggeration I may state the past twelve months to be in truth the most disagreeable and troublesome that I have ever passed, what with Political Commercial & Agricultural difficulties. I may almost say that I have not had a day of satisfaction, we are however over the worst, although we have suffered severely in Commerce by failures in London alone by the houses of Thomas Wilson & Co. & George Wilde & Co. we had to amount
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of near £20.000 Stg of our drafts protested they were however principally taken up by Messrs Baring & Brothers & Co. for our honor, and we have fairly weathered the storm.
I now enclose you under cover statement of a Box of Spars and Minerals which I have had selected for you, the Box itself is of our Cuba Mahogany and cut on this Estate and I really hope that both that, and its contents will be found pleasing and satisfactory to you, I send it down to town with instructions to avail of best mode for its safe conveyance to Liverpool, directed to the care of Messrs James Perrin & Sons of that City for Nehemiah Wright Esq. of Christ Church Place Dublin.
I shall expect to hear from you of its receipt & beg you to believe
me truly yr affectionate Cousin
Santiago J. Wright
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P.S. You must not let the shortness of my letters induce you to believe, that I am not interested in all that regards family & country, but really I am not in spirits to write more at large yr. SJW
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Language
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English
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List of contributors
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Kerby A. Miller
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Patricia Miller
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Giselle Gonzalez Garcia
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Margaret Brohony
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Cristian Sanchez
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People
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James Jenkinson Wright
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Martha Wright
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Jonathan Wright
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Location
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Sophie Estate, Santiago de Cuba
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New York City, United States
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Dublin, Ireland
