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Dear Sir:

Yours of the — is recieved, and as I have no letters to answer I will congratulate you on the election which confers upon you the above title. I have full confidence in your ability as Cash^r or lawyer and know well that Bank will divide under your direction large dividends. "Long may you rain."

Cash^r Kellogg will probably like the "Back Room of the Central Bank of Troy" better than "an Office on Farnham St." I know he will. I wish you success John and hope soon to hear from you. Considerable property changed hands last week, but I couldn't get the "strangers" as they were hooked by old friends.

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P.S. I thnk I wrote you Adam R Smith is soon to remove to Aurora N.Y. and he purchased a farm of eighty acres.