Unidad documental simple 9 - Letter from J. P. Cullum to Dawson Turner

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Add. MS a/659/9

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Letter from J. P. Cullum to Dawson Turner

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  • 7 Oct. 1813 (Creación)

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1 folded sheet. The bottom half of the back leaf has been cut off.

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Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds.—Asks him in confidence for a loan of £700.

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Dear Sir

I venture to address a few lines to you which at all events I trust In your confidence In not divulging it to any one you well know how particular my Father is and having some pressing demands on me which should they read my Fathers ears might be the means of his leaving me nothing I have therefore most earnestly to appeal to you If you could do me the service of procurring† me the loan of £700 which I would pay £800 for at the death of my Father or any other sum that would be proper I have no Friend to apply to here or would not have troubled you Oakes {1} would not assist me as we are on different sides in the Corporation

I assure you if you can get It done for me you will save me from ruin I must again {2} that this Is In perfect confidence, you will oblige me much by a line at your leisure & I hope you will pardon my thus troubling you but necessity alone urged me

I remain Dear Sir
Yours very truly

J P Cullum

Northgate street
Bury S Edmunds
October 7th 1813

If I could have It In small sums at different times It would do I earnestly hope that you will exert yourself for me I repeat again I would not have troubled you unless necessity urged me

[Superscription:] Dawson Turner Es {3} | Yarmouth | Norfolk

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Mounted on a larger sheet, i.e. inserted into a space cut out for it.

{1] Probably Henry James Oakes, who was elected alderman of Bury in 1829, the year after Cullum. See A Guide to the Town, Abbey, and Antiquities of Bury St Edmunds, 2nd ed. (1836), p. 130, and Al. Cantab.

{2} A verb is missing.

{3} Followed by what appear to be the letters ‘ar’.

† Sic.

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