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H.L. Warner letter to Richard Pell Hunt
01/19/1853
On front of document:
“Westfield Jany 19, 1853
R.P. Hunt Esq
Dr Sir,
Your letter of 10th Inst was receiv’d and contents noted. I wrote Mr Hadley respecting the Petition & have his reply to Day that my name is not required, the application having been before the Judiciary Committee of which he is on & they agreed to report a Bill immediately –
I wrote Mr Faxon the same day I rec’d your Letter, giving him my views if the business you reported to have not rec’d a reply – The charges you bring against him I hope he may be able to satisfy you are [illegible] I made an 'arrangement' (it may be the first) with Mr Faxon to do the business of the cotton company in N. York, but I did not expect that arrangement was perpetual, at the end of year I was in the habit of inquiring of him if he wished to continue to do the business & for the same terms - from recollection I should think there was some variation in those terms from year to year, but I think his terms was always less than the regular commission houses charged – I hope he may not suffer in any way in consequence of his connections with the [company?] – you say you ‘should much regret a protest because you think the company never had one’, permit me to say they have had more than one & [five?] in justice to my Friend & Myself I claim we are exonerated from blame. I have known from past experience something about the financial"
On back of document:
"concerns of the Cotton Company –
Permit me to ^call your attention to a subject in which I take a deep interest, it is the Health of your village. Mr Hadley writes me that there are Petitions in circulation in Waterloo relative to Dikeing or in some way controling the water of Seneca River – will you give countenance to these Petitions & see to it that they are signed by all the good citizens of the Village, & forwarded to Mr Hadley without delay – I hope my Brothers are interested in this subject. I should be pleased to return to Waterloo myself, could I but feel that something would be done to remedy the imputation under which the village now rests – far & near I have heard it proclaimed during my pilgrimage that Waterloo is an unhealty place, cannot something be done to remove this Stigma, under which the villlage now rests – Mr Hadley will probably be in Waterloo on Saturday next, cannot he have the petitions to take back him- I hope you will excuse the warmth with which I speak of this Subject, for rest assured it is my honest convictions that the sickness of myself & family now First to be attributed to the malaria consequent upon the decomposition of vegetable substances, caused by the over-flowing of the Water in Seneca River.It is not the quantity of Water that I complain of – but the rise & fall of the same –
With Respect Yours
H.L. Warner”
On edge of front of document:
"H. L. Warner 21mo 19th 53"
“Westfield Jany 19, 1853
R.P. Hunt Esq
Dr Sir,
Your letter of 10th Inst was receiv’d and contents noted. I wrote Mr Hadley respecting the Petition & have his reply to Day that my name is not required, the application having been before the Judiciary Committee of which he is on & they agreed to report a Bill immediately –
I wrote Mr Faxon the same day I rec’d your Letter, giving him my views if the business you reported to have not rec’d a reply – The charges you bring against him I hope he may be able to satisfy you are [illegible] I made an 'arrangement' (it may be the first) with Mr Faxon to do the business of the cotton company in N. York, but I did not expect that arrangement was perpetual, at the end of year I was in the habit of inquiring of him if he wished to continue to do the business & for the same terms - from recollection I should think there was some variation in those terms from year to year, but I think his terms was always less than the regular commission houses charged – I hope he may not suffer in any way in consequence of his connections with the [company?] – you say you ‘should much regret a protest because you think the company never had one’, permit me to say they have had more than one & [five?] in justice to my Friend & Myself I claim we are exonerated from blame. I have known from past experience something about the financial"
On back of document:
"concerns of the Cotton Company –
Permit me to ^call your attention to a subject in which I take a deep interest, it is the Health of your village. Mr Hadley writes me that there are Petitions in circulation in Waterloo relative to Dikeing or in some way controling the water of Seneca River – will you give countenance to these Petitions & see to it that they are signed by all the good citizens of the Village, & forwarded to Mr Hadley without delay – I hope my Brothers are interested in this subject. I should be pleased to return to Waterloo myself, could I but feel that something would be done to remedy the imputation under which the village now rests – far & near I have heard it proclaimed during my pilgrimage that Waterloo is an unhealty place, cannot something be done to remove this Stigma, under which the villlage now rests – Mr Hadley will probably be in Waterloo on Saturday next, cannot he have the petitions to take back him- I hope you will excuse the warmth with which I speak of this Subject, for rest assured it is my honest convictions that the sickness of myself & family now First to be attributed to the malaria consequent upon the decomposition of vegetable substances, caused by the over-flowing of the Water in Seneca River.It is not the quantity of Water that I complain of – but the rise & fall of the same –
With Respect Yours
H.L. Warner”
On edge of front of document:
"H. L. Warner 21mo 19th 53"
Content Location: Westfield, NY
Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca County, New York
Latitude: 42.9025993347168, Longitude: -76.8444976806641
Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca County, New York
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Email: https://www.nps.gov/wori/contacts.htm
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Richard Pell Hunt, 1797-1856 (Womens Rights Names)
H.L. Warner (Womens Rights Names)
Commercial Correspondence (Womens Rights Genre)
H.L. Warner (Womens Rights Names)
Commercial Correspondence (Womens Rights Genre)
Part of Series I. Richard Pell Hunt C. Professional Life 5. Waterloo Cotton Mill
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