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Hi.. I just came across on Ebay 10 old letters from Garett Bergen. These are not mine.. just letting someone who might be his family know about them.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41188&item=6511829952&rd=1
Up for bids are 10 GD condition ink letters from Garret G. Bergen in Brooklyn in 1873 and 1874. Many are on "South Brooklyn Saw Mill Co." letterheads and they contain both personal news and business content. Very strong condition and content including a description of his severe accident leaving him almost a cripple when trampled by his horse in Aug 1873; now bedridden with a very bad leg but trying to ambulate with crutches; about his rental properties and mortgages; difficulties with a lady in Red Hook who owes him $; about timber and the logging and sawing business; how he is suffering increasingly from bouts of "dyspepsia;" how he sells the "Livingston property" also a lot in Newark; how John is ailing and not recovering properly; more problems with the Red Hook lady, Mrs. Proctor; selling items at auction; having a heavy snow and then rain storm in Feb 1873 and Frank ends up at home with a bad cold.
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