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1817 Letter from Lewis
Rousmarie in Newport, Rhode Island
To Brown and Ives - Providence, RI at 6 cents postal rate
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Letter is requesting goods and items for ship's supplies
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Letter)
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This letter was mailed on
December 20, 2025 from Newport, Rhode island to Brown and Ives -
Merchants in Providence, Rhode Island. The letter contains a request for
heavy duck and sheetings. The writer is Lewis Rousmarie and judging by
the items requested; is probably either the captain or owner of a
sailing ship. The cover contains a script postal rate of 6 cents and a
very nice December 20 - Newport, RI blue cork cancel.
At the Bottom of the letter is a short notation reading:
"Wrote 18 1/2 for the item,"
which is most likely a Brown added note on the price they will ask for
the sheetings. |
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Newport 19th Dec 1817
Messrs Brown and Ives
Gentlemen,
Absence from home has
prevented an earlier attention to your letter of 15th inst - I know
nothing of the Hiram save what has been published in the papers having
received no letters. (Note: It appears that Brown
and Ives in an earlier letter to Lewis, requested information concerning
a ship named Hiram.)
I want 20 bolts more of the
same quality heavy duck I had of you when last in Providence @ $21 - at
that price of six months credit. I wish you to send me this quantity and
if $18, same credit will answer for the sheetings, one bale of them of
good quality, provided the bale does not exceed 20 pieces.
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Yours Respectfully,
Lewis Rousmarie |
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Wrote 18 1/2 for the item (Possible
Brown appended note) |
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For more on the Brown Family
History, see additional Brown family letters and history at: The
Providence Brown Family Letters
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