Matthew F. Pleasants to Little, Brown, & Co., 6 May 1869

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Title: Matthew F. Pleasants to Little, Brown, & Co., 6 May 1869
Date: May 6, 1869
Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00905
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May 6, 1869. Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. Boston, Mass. Gentlemen: You are requested to forward to this office a copy of Bennett & Heard's Digest of Massachusetts Reports, 2 Vols. On examination it is discovered that you have sent us two copies of Vol. 33 California Reports, one of them on December 4, 1868, and the other Jan. 9, 1869. Accordingly one of these copies will be returned to you by express, for which you will please make a corresponding reduction in your account. To avoid future inconvenience of this kind, you will please hereafter to forward books only as they are ordered. Very Resp. yours, M. F. Pleasants, Ch. Clerk.