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      “Oregon”
                 Victoria V.I.
Royal Fisk Esqr      Jany 18. 1864
	        Dear Sir
		        Your favor of the
9th received and contents correct
I am awfully provoked with those flour
people they cannot Expect to get their
flour introduced and used unless they
Keep a Supply here  Enclosed I send you
Sales for last Shipment  Except the oat meal
Which is not sold with check for the amount
$[3]45 63/100.  Which I hope will be Satisfactory to
them     Your Bbls of beef was not
good  Mr Rhodes returned it [me] saying
he could not Eat it
		  Your & c
			J.A.Mc.Crea

Description:  This letter to Royal Fisk was written by J.A. McCrea in Victoria, Vancouver Island on January 18, 1864 and sent on the steamer Oregon.  McCrea expressed frustration with a new flour supplier; enclosed money; noted the oatmeal (oat meal) had not yet sold; and indicated the beef was unsatisfactory such that one person (Mr. Rhodes) returned it. 

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