Letter from Benjamin L. Lear to Asbury Dickens, Secretary of the Columbian Institute, September 30, 1825
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Sir,
I received yesterday your note of the 27[[superscript]] th [[/superscript]] & thank you for your kind attention in reminding me of the note that I had the honor to receive from you, of the 11[[superscript]] th [[/superscript]] Aug[[superscript]] t [[/superscript]], &wh: I intended to answer, but have been absent from the city almost ever since. -
I beg to present also, thro' you sir, my acknowledgement to the Columbian Institute, of the favor they have shewn me in offering to remit the forfeiture of my membership.
When I ceased, two of three years ago, to attend the meetings of the Institute, it was my intention to resign my
my place as a member, but having heard soon after that there had been a new organization of that Body, by wh: I, with many others, w[[superscript]] d [[/superscript]] cease to be a member, without any instigation on my part, I have ever since considered myself as no longer such. -
Very Respectfully,,
Sir,
Your ob: St:
B.L. Lear.
Asbury Dickins, Esquire,
Secretary of the Col: Ins:
Washington.
From
Benjamin L. Lear, resigning his membership in the Columbian Institute.
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dated 30[[superscript]] th [[/superscript]]. Sept. 1825
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Asbury Dickens Esquire
Secretary of the Col: Ins:
Washington
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Read, Oct. 1. 1825.
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