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            “Active”
                  Victoria V.I.
                        Oct 24. 1865
R Fisk Esqr
	   Dear sir
			Yours of the 11 inst
received  You may Send up 25 tons more of
the beans and sell the balance   See if you
can buy me a lot of Sal Soda in bond  Say 50 bbls at
not over 3 cents or ten bbls not over 5c.  Send me
ten Bbls good corned beef  If Pork goes down I want
Some but cannot stand present prices if you
can get anything in the way of cheap meats Hams
or bacon   Send some as it is very scarce here
50 or 100 kegs EB syrup and if flour should fall
Send me 2 [ts] 500 bbls.  What can you get for
best quality of fire bricks  There is a lot of about
50 m{strikethrough} Coalbrookdale Co.  Some are not equal but shaped
{drawing of the uneven rectangle shape of the brick}  but most are the regular shape  If coal oil 
drops  Send 50 cases
			yours Truly
                                 J.A McCrea

      Strawbridge & [lowers] {written in pencil}

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