Letter from Orson Hyde, 15 December 1835

he would trust me until January, but m ust then have his pay as the payments for the goods become due at that time. I told him that I know not from whence the money wou ld come and I could not promise it so soon.

But in a few weeks after I unexpectedly obtained the money to buy a cloak and applyed imm ediately to Elder

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for one and told him that I had the cash to pay for it, but he said that the materials for cloaks were all sold and that he could not accommodately me, and I will here venture a guess that he has not realized the cash for one cloak pattern.

A few weeks after this I called on Elder Cahoon

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again and told him that I wan ted cloth for some shirts to the amount of 4 or 5 Dollars I told him that I would pay him in the spring and sooner if I could.

He told me let me have it not long after, my school was established and some of the hands who laboured on the house

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attended and wished to pay me at the Committee Store

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for their tuition.— I called at the Store

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to see if any nego[ti]ation could be made and they take me off where I owed them, but no such negotiation could be made. These with some other circumstances of like char acter called forth the following. reflections.

In the first place I gave the committee $275 in cash besides some more and during the last season have traveled thro the Middle and Eastern states to suport and uphold the store

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and in so doing have reduced my self to nothing in a pecuniary point. Under [p. 71]

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Editorial Title: Letter from Orson Hyde, 15 December 1835
ID #: 298