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Duplicate – Original P "Genl Hewitt" 
See Origl. of 31 Oct. overleaf.

[Pencil note:] Davidson to James MacAr

St James,s Street, London,
12th October, 1844. 

My dear MacArthur, 

Your letter of the 9th April reached me the other day. Edward is in Ireland, but I have accepted all the Bills that have already appeared, viz, one of £1000 and another of £750. The first will become payable on the 15th Inst. and the second, early in December – I have never hesitated to honor your Drafts, and as to what you write about security, I have nothing whatever to do with the Proposition, nor did I ever hear of it before, or ever express any wish of the sort to Edward. – That he should feel anxious to anticipate any distrust in this Country, is not to be wondered at, after the frightful Accounts which have reached us 
 

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