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  1. MS050 B02 F11.04 - Lane, Son & Fraser to John Langdon

    Three page letter from Lane, Son & Fraser in London, England to John Langdon in Portsmouth. Lane, Son & Fraser was a London-based merchant bank. This letter is written by Mr. Fraser, not Lane: "I count it one of the greatest Afflictions of my Life that I have liv'd to be witness to a Separation from your Country...just at a time when the Trade to your Place was increasing & I may say flourishing to a great degree then a stop was put to it &...

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    Lane, Son & Fraser to John Langdon
  2. MS050 B02 F11.06 - Lane, Son & Fraser to John Langdon

    Three page letter from Lane, Son & Fraser in London, England to John Langdon in Portsmouth. Lane, Son & Fraser was a London-based merchant bank. Letter written by Fraser: "No one sure has so much reason to be sorry for the late change in the system of trade as myself." Later he adds, "I hope your Brother will pay his ballance." Dated February 10, 1786.

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    Lane, Son & Fraser to John Langdon
  3. MS050 B02 F11.09 - Lane, Son & Fraser to John Langdon

    Two page letter from Lane, Son & Fraser in London, England to John Langdon in Portsmouth. Lane, Son & Fraser was a London-based merchant bank. Letter from Thomas Fraser: "My old friend W.L. [Woodbury Langdon] certainly ought to have given you the money he took with him to New York because he ordered to his own credit the balance due on your ship Juno." Dated July 7, 1786.

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  4. MS050 B02 F12.06 - Lane, Son & Fraser to John Langdon

    One page letter from Lane, Son & Fraser in London to John Langdon in Portsmouth. Lane, Son & Fraser was a London-based merchant bank. Enclosed is a bill of lading and an invoice for sundry merchandise shipped on board the George amounting to £301.1s.0d. The postscript says that Thomas Fraser (T.F.) will respond to Langdon's letter in two or three days. Dated May 1, 1790.

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    Lane, Son & Fraser to John Langdon
  5. MS050 B02 F12.08 - Lane, Son & Fraser to John Langdon

    Two page letter from Lane, Son & Fraser in London to John Langdon in Portsmouth (and one-page copy). Lane, Son & Fraser was a London-based merchant bank. Letter from Thomas Fraser: They send their best wishes to him no matter where he resides. They wish they could have been of service to him in his claim for part of the ship commanded by Captain Palmer. They credit him for 1/3rd of the loss of the glassware sent some time ago by Captain Sco...

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    Lane, Son & Fraser to John Langdon
  6. MS050 B02 F12.09 - Lane, Son & Fraser to John Langdon

    One page letter from Lane, Son & Fraser in Boston MA to John Langdon in Portsmouth. Lane, Son & Fraser was a London-based merchant bank. Letter from Thomas Fraser: Quotes French General Talmast who said that when he got back to France from his imprisonment in England he realized he should discount the days spent at Chatsworth with the Duke of Devonshire. Similarly, when he, Fraser, gets back to London, he says he will count the part of his...

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    Lane, Son & Fraser to John Langdon
  7. MS050 B02 F12.10 - Lane, Son & Fraser to John Langdon

    Two page letter from Lane, Son & Fraser in Boston MA to John Langdon in Portsmouth. Lane, Son & Fraser was a London-based merchant bank. Letter from Thomas Fraser: He is fulsome in his praise and expresses his pleasure at having spent his time in America with friends in Boston, Portsmouth, Salem, Marblehead and Rhode Island. He goes back to London on one of his friend [William] Russell's ships and will have the consignment of one half the...

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    Lane, Son & Fraser to John Langdon
  8. MS050 B02 F21.01 - Pierse Long to John Langdon

    Three page letter from Pierse Long in New York to John Langdon in Portsmouth. Pierse Long (1739-1789) was a merchant from Portsmouth and served as a colonel in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War He was a New Hampshire delegate to the Confederation Congress in 1785 and 1786. The item that Langdon enclosed to Lane, Son & Fraser in his recent letter to Pierse shall be put on the first vessel that sails for London. Baron von Steub...

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    Pierse Long to John Langdon

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