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Letter from Woolsey & O'Hara, 20 July 1789
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CA RBD MSG 1310-2-02-017
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20 July 1789 (Creation)
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- Woolsey & O'Hara
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- Québec (Québec)
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1 folded sheet
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(1780-1790)
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Woolsey & O'Hara was a Quebec City business that specialized in fabrics, shoes, and clothing. It was a partnership between merchants Robert Woolsey and Edward O'Hara.
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Letter from Woolsey & O'Hara to James Morrison with commercial news, especially about a potential flour shortage and about the success of the year's crops, with a postscript about current political and military events. Includes a list of prices for several goods: rum, molasses, Jamaica rum, loaf sugar, coarse flour, cheese, soap, English mould candles, green tea, Spanish red wine, and others.