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another Hundred Dollars or consent to take a certain
number of copies at the Subscription price. If you
will meet me at Pictou, and bring the MS. with you,
I will examine it and consult with you as to the
best mode of placing it creditably before the world.
Yours truly
Jos Howe
Mr Thomas Irving
Charlottetown, P.E. Island.
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Chester Basin April 15th 1843
To the Honorable Joseph Howe
Sir In pursuance to your Honr Letter
to Mr Dimock, I take the Liberty of writing to Your
Honr concerning my Instruction to the Indians of Gold
River. I can assure Your Honr that I visitted them regularly
according to contract and am happy to be able to aspire
Your Honr, that six of John Penall's seems well inclined to
learn, for I find three of them able to read a little. The
other three together with three of Ives are spelling. But
whether I am to continue visitting them or not is what