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-3- porter for his knowledge of any settlement between us, it has not ri even the claim to ingenuity as an illustration--tnere is no ana- logy whatever between the two cases.--When we made our settle- ment, and you allowed for the Brandy in the account but omitted the fish, saying thqy were unsold, I never for a moment at that period doubted the truth of your statement—true I was dissatis- fied at your account of the Brandy, and disbelieved the excuse you made for a large deduction in the price, by describing the Brandy as inferior. M& Duport who imported it for me will cer- tify that the article came from a House of the first respecta- bility who are incapable of such an imposition as sending an inferior article invoiced as first quality, the persons in Mex- O the ico who tasted of every one of other ke^s will certify and swear A if necessary that they were superior Cogniac, this I know; this I stated to you at the time, and how that single keg out of six should be so inferior, whilst the other five sustained the des- cription in the invoice was what I did. not believe--yet as I sppposed it possible that your clerk might have misrepresented .a..- the affair, I suffered quietly an imposition to the extent of about i the selling price of the Brandy in Mexico, and there the affair would, have rested, for certainly I never meant to have in- vestigated the transaction one step farther, had I not been told that the fish were on hand, and cauld n^t be s^ld: this determin- ed ed me to distribute them among3t my friends as presents--and a
Copy of transcript for a letter from Anthony Butler to William S. Parrott, on December 12, 1835, calling him out for spreading lies about Butler, and for keeping the money from selling goods that should have gone to Butler.
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[Transcript of letter from Anthony Butler to William S. Parrott, December 12, 1835],
letter,
December 12, 1835;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth216310/m1/2/:
accessed April 30, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.