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THE EARLE FAMILY
and have the credit as well as advantage of perfecting the first
zvater-mill in America, we should be glad to engage thy care so
long as they can be made profitable to both, and we can agree.
I am for myself and Almy and Brown
MOSES BROWN."
The letter of Almy & Brown to Pliny Earle is deposited in the
library of the Worcester Society of Antiquity, at Worcester, Mass.;
and that of Silas Earle to his brother Jonah is in the possession of
Stephen C. Earle, Architect, of the same city.
B.
Correspondence in relation to the candidacy of Thomas
Earle [S69-2] for the Vice-Presidency of the United
States.
Thomas Earle, Esq.
"Albany, April 2d, 1840.
Sir : The National Convention of friends of Immediate Emancipa-
tion, now in session at the City Hall, in this city, having resolved
that it is their duty to concentrate their votes at the coming presi-
dential election, have, with cordial unanimity, selected you as their
candidate for the office of Vice-President of the United States, and
James G. Birney, Esq., of New York, as their candidate for the
office of President of the same. And they have earnestly recommended
these candidates to the support and the suffrages of the
friends of human rights, as men abundantly qualified and worthy to
fill the high offices to which they would elect them.
With sentiments of the highest esteem, we are your friends and
fellow-citizens.
Myron Holley,
Joshua Leavitt,
E. Wright, Jr.
Committee,"