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Letter to George Foster and Sons from Thomas McCosh

Description
Creators
McCosh, Thomas, Author
George Foster and Sons
, Recipient
Media Type
Text
Item Type
Documents
Description
This item is a letter sent from Thomas McCosh, a Paris merchant and town clerk, to George Foster and Sons on November 11, 1901. Mr. McCosh writes of an enclosed order in addition to a complaint regarding Fosters being sold out of apples and doing what he can with the payment a customer provided him.
Notes
George Foster and Sons was a Wholesale Grocery business initially located at 143 Colborne Street before relocating to a larger building at 251 Colborne Street on the historic South Side of Brantford.
Date of Original
November 11, 1901
Subject(s)
Corporate Name(s)
George Foster and Sons
Local identifier
985.86.024.008.001
Collection
Brant Museum and Archives Collection
Language of Item
English
Geographic Coverage
  • Ontario, Canada
    Latitude: 43.1334 Longitude: -80.26636
  • Ontario, Canada
    Latitude: 43.2 Longitude: -80.38333
Copyright Statement
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Recommended Citation
Letter to George Foster and Sons from Thomas McCosh, November 11, 1901. Brant Museum and Archives Collection. Item No. 985.86.024.008.001.
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Full Text

Commercial House

Mrs. S. A. Irwin, Proprietress

Ripley, Ont. 11th Nov 1901

Mess. Geo Foster & Sons

Brantford

Gentlemen,

herewith enclosed

please find orders for B.B. [Gain]

[Seaforth], I was not sure about the

gal apples. If you have [none] then

just say they are sold out. There was

other two grocery [illegible] then. So I did

not say that we might be sold out

and spoil the [before] the order

[A. G. Well] paid me and of his own

bill I will do what I can here.

Tomorrow morning then go to [Riverdale]

at noon and drive [is sometime tomorrow].

I remain,

yours truly, Th. McCosh

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