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1841-1850

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To JAMES SANER,1 [?MID NOVEMBER 1841]

Facsimile (envelope only) International Autograph Auctions, May 2008. Address: James Saner Esquire | 36 Finsbury Square. PM unreadable.

1. James Saner, M.D., surgeon; medical officer to the Eagle Insurance Company. Died 1860, aged 81. CD was applying to the Eagle Insurance Company at this time before travelling to America: see To John Forster, [?13 Nov 1841], in Pilgrim Letters 2, p. 420, in which the reference to "sapient saner" was either a play on the name of Saner, the Company's medical officer, or a simple reference to the outcome of his medical check by the "knowledgeable" or "wise" ("sapient") James Saner.