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Edgartown 20 Oct., 1871s
Mr. Cobb Sir: It has just come to my knowledge that a packet sent by me a few days since to Wm. H. Crapo, Esq. has been passed by you to Mr. Francis B. Greene. The papers were intended, as my note accompanying them shows, for the use and disposal of Mr. Crapo alone; and I request you to recover them at once, and replace them, with my note, under seal for him, on his return home.
Respectfully Allen Gannett
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Edgartown 18 Oct. 1871
Mr. Crapo, Dear Sir: Please read the correspondence inclosed with this, for which I expect to call at your office next Wednesday.
No answer has been returned to Mr. Greene's letters.
It is singular that we knew nothing here of Mr. Stetson's claim till a month since; and besides, that neither he nor Mr. Greene even makes any allusion to the other, but each writes as if the business had been intrusted alone to him.
The bills were sealed and
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paid after Mr. Osborne's death, were not Stetson's, but "Elliot and Stetson's". We wish to have the business in competent hands.
Is it common for one of the legal profession to whimper (sic) about the "spirit" of a party, at the same time that he claims the law in its letter to be on his side?
Respectfully Allan Gannett
Allen Gannett Oct. 18 '71
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Edgartown 2 Dec., 1871
Mr. Crapo: Dear Sir, Mr. Chadwick expects to call on you next Monday. I should be glad to receive by him the papers sent you a fortnight since; & to know whether you think it of consequence that any more words be had with Mr. Stetson: that is, by way of prohibiting any & all interference of his in the case. For if he has not a legal claim, we intend that he shall have nothing to do with it; & I have no wish to bandy words with him.
Very respectfully Allen Gannett