1815  1 Nov  Shelburne  

1021. Mrs. Gideon White to her son Cornelius. Entirely personal. Holograph.
Postscript: partially missing, by Gideon White. Holograph.

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1815  17 Nov  Digby  

1022. Peleg Wiswall to Thos. Crowell, in reply to a letter. General news. Holograph.

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1815  23 Nov  Annapolis  

1023. Nathaniel White to his father, chiefly relative to the practice of law in Nova Scotia. "One Court treads so closely on the heels of another that I really can think of nothing not immediately connected with them. The litigous spirit that prevails in this County is truly astonishing. There is, in fact, scarcely an individual that is not in the course of the year either Plaintiff of Defendant. And the beauty of it is they do it with such perfect good humour that like the spatting of two attorneys their disputes cease and entire cordiality prevails the instant the suit is decided. ...In the last Year there haave been about six hundred suits instituted in this county, nearly three fourths of which have been brought by Mr. Ritchie. His practice is almost incredibly extensive, and is the result of close and indefaticable application unassisted by any remarkable endowments either natural or acquired. There is indeed so much sameness in the cases that occur in this country and so plain a tract has been beaten, that the practice has become quite mechanical and requires only moderate parts but most immoderate labour and toil. There is nothing in my opinion that so effectually cramps genius and stifles all liberality of principle, as the constant repetition of form. It binds one down to precedent without allowing the smallest latitude of thought or expression. I refer to the practical forms in Our Courts of Law, which every man of sense must acknowledge to be unnecessarily and even ridiculously prolix, and evidently contrived with no other view than increase of Costs. An Attorney should be made of stern and obdurate stuff to be conversant without rremorse in the many scenes which he is obliged to witness." Family matters. Holograph.

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1815  5 Dec  London  

1024. Favell & Bousfield to Gideon White, transmitting their final account.  Holograph.
Overleaf: account.

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1816  4 Mar  London  

1025. Rufus Chandler to Gideon White, explaining why he paid some money into the hands of White's agents and asking that it be paid back as soon as possible. He is glad to hear that Miles is a successful merchant in Halifax.  Holograph.

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1816  20 Mar  Cambridge  Mass.

1026. Mr. Gannett to his father-in-law, Gideon White. Personal and family matters. Holograph.

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1816  11 Apr  Liverpool  

1027. J. D. W. White to his brother Cornelius, Halifax merchant, asking him to send the invoice of the goods the writer got out of the store.  Holograph.

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1816  20 Jun  Annapolis  

1028. Nathaniel White to his father, Gideon White. Comments on the legal profession, especially Mr. Wiswall. His own plans.  Holograph.

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1816  27 Jun  Shelburne  

1029. 1. Gideon White to his son Cornelius. He asks him to act as his agent for his half-pay. Personal matters.

2. Mrs. Gideon White to Cornelius, on personal matters and asking him to send certain articles for the house. Both holograph.

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1816  16 Jul  Shelburne  

1030. Fifteen papers, dated from 22 January 1814 to 16 July 1816, relative to the estate of Samuel Davenport. Chiefly accounts. 

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1816  25 Aug  Yarmouth  

1031. Robert K. Black to Thos. Crowell, on business and general news. Holograph.

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1816  20 Nov  Niagara  

1032. Joshua Pell to Gideon White. White's letter was forwarded but has never arrived; he would like to know the contents and also in what condition his land is.
Postscript relative to the war, and the fertility of the land and high cost of living in his neighbourhood. Holograph.

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1816  21 Nov  Annapolis  

1033. Nathaniel White to his brother Gideon, explaining that he cannot be present at Gideon's wedding because of the press of legal business, and commenting on the married state.  Holograph.

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1809-1816   Nov  Shelburne  

1034. Nine papers showing various legal fees and otherwise connected with the law, variously dated between 1809 and Dec. 16, 1816.  

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1816  31 Dec  Barrington  

1035. Returns of monies expended from the licence fund for repairing roads and bridges, signed by the commissioner, Ebenezer Crowell.  

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