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                          Victoria V.I.
                                June 3. 1863
R Fisk Esqr
           Dear Sir
                Yours of the 27. received
I Send to your care and for sale two 
hundred bags large Bayos beans which I
wish you Sell for my a/c
                          Messr Saint Price & Co
[pass] them here at the original Chile [cost] 
and that will be the price to pay duties by-
the beans [cost] [mend] 4 1/4 4 but i have more 
than I can sell in this market  therefore you 
will Sell them at the best rate you can-
Jam[s]on Bond + Co have a large lot of common
tobacco in bond Sent to them from [China] if 
you can buy it for 15 cents do so & send it
up do not let any one know it is for me
with the proceeds of the beans  you can by
Say 100 Bbls golden Gate flour superfine  100 Bbls
Indian flour  sacks must be the same shape as 
the G. Gate.  Some pork if you can find it  20
Firkin choice Isthmus butter and anything Else
that is cheap--
                     Your Truly    JA McCrea

Description: This letter to Royal Fisk was written by J.A. McCrea in Victoria, Vancouver Island on June 2, 1863.  McCrea referred to business with Jameson Bond & Co and Saint Price & Co, and provided trade directions for beans (from Chile), tobacco (from China?), Golden Gate superfine flour, Indian flour, pork, and Choice Isthmus butter.  

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