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This document offers Paul Revere and Sons detailed specifications of the copper required by the Mint of the United States and asks that they indicate how much copper they have on hand and when it could be delivered.
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Draft Letter from Robert Patterson to Paul Revere and Sons
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Draft Letter from Robert Patterson to Paul Revere and Sons
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This document offers Paul Revere and Sons detailed specifications of the copper required by the Mint of the United States and asks that they indicate how much copper they have on hand and when it could be delivered.
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Records of the U.S. Mint
Correspondence and Records Used for Exhibition Purposes
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in you inform me that you of shult Copper, and you at
as cheapernate than those now wined althes mind- of this
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want just Butifying an invoves of me know at the mints him the could above
furnish of about any zotons of copper, deliverable anower
described manner, would be able bejuidge for me
to purchase any any fun you -
I am respectfully