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1. 12915 - Letter

   1804 letter to Israel Thorndike & Samuel Page from a merchant (name unreadable) in Nantes, France. The writer says that Captain Jonathan Lovett sailed into Nantes and asked the letter writer's firm to dispose of the cargo, which chiefly belonged to Thorndike and Page. Capt Lovett became very ill, "raving mad" and was confined. Later he refused food and wanted to kill himself. The company and the doctor hoped that Lovett would recover, but he was...

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