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 CORRESPONDENCE appeal for

Oregon City and other

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parts of the Willamette

Valley.

Yours

as ever with high esteem,

EZRA FISHER, Exploring Agent. Received Feb. 26.

To

the Rev.

Cor. Sec.

Oregon City, O. Ten, Benjamin M. Hill,

Am. Bap. Home Mission

Dear Brother I

$300

&

Hill

Society,

New

York.



shall be obliged to in favor of

Jan. 18th, 1855.

draw an order on you

for $200 or and or Co., josiah Failing Abernathy, Clarke

Co. at Portland, in three or four weeks, as I

eling expenses.

I

am

am now

ordinary family and travalso expecting to hear from the goods,

straitened for funds to keep

up

my

which you shipped on the Wild Ranger for San Francisco, by every mail and I have not the means to pay the freight from San Francisco to this place. I send this that you may have at least two weeks notice before the order is presented. I gave Br. J. D. Post an order of $150 on you sometime last summer or autumn, but have never heard from it since but presume it is paid. If that is paid, I suppose there will be due me, after you receive my last report, which was made out and forwarded the first day of this month, about $420. I have received $13 from the Baptist Church in this place ( Oregon City), and wish you to send twenty (20) copies of the Home Mission Record, twenty (20) copies of the American Messenger, twenty (20) copies of the Macedonian and one (1) copy of the Missionary Magazine, all postpaid, to William C. Johnson, Oregon City, if that amount will meet all the expenses: if not, send equal numbers of the Record and Macedonian, fewer of the American Messenger and one copy of the Missionary Magazine and prepay the postage, applying $13 on these, no more and no less. Charge the same to my account. Also pay B. R. Soxley. Philadelphia, one dollar ($1)