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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2

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To Eunice Paine

30 September 1757

To Mary Fletcher?

October 1757
From Mary Fletcher?
Fletcher, Mary RTP
October? 1757? Sir,

Thinking you an object of Charity I spare the inclos'd* out of my own Store and beg your acceptance of it as a Proof of that Sincerity wherewith I am,

your Friend.1

*Honesty

RC ; addressed: "For Mr Robbert Treat Paine Boston."

1.

RTP's correspondent encloses a flat round semi-transparent pod of the plant Luneria biennis, popularly called "honesty." The correspondent is conjectured to be Mary Fletcher. See note to RTP's letter to 'Lavinia" under Jan. 1757. She may also be the individual mentioned by RTP in his letter to Eunice of Oct. 18, below.