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New York 29. Dec 1868
Rev. R. M. Manly
Richmond Va.

Dear Sir,
The Rippon Hall company owe the N.Y. Branch &c for goods sold and delivered some $400. less or more. What steps can be taken to get the money.? The debt was not so much originally as $400. and there may be some just claim for an abatement. I have bought from the N.Y. Branch this demand (and all others upon their books,) and should be glad to turn it into as large a pile of Greenbacks as possible. I suppose the company to be abundantly able at any date To meet their liabilities. Please let me hear from you. I hope that you are very happily and usefully employed.
With unfeigned regard
Yours most truly
E. C. Estes 

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