Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-28
A Rich Correspondence.
II. II. M'CARrY, Esq:
BALTIMORE, April 30, 1859.


II. II. M'CARrY, Esq:
Dear Strive have frequently sent you
circulars, and have often thought it strange
that we have not heard from you. However,
our object in writing this time, is to offer you
the preference to purchase a very finely ar
ranged package of 26 tickets in the Grand
Consolidated Lottery, Class H., drawing May
2lst. This package gives you the advantage
of $3.50 worth of tickets for the cost OF only
500. The same has, from its repeated sue
cess, won the title of the Lucky Package,
and, to convince you of our confidence in its
success, We will promise to send you another
package free Of charge, if the first fails to
draw a three number prize, the lowest being
this offer in good faith, with an effort to sell
you the capital, $4,000, and we hope you
will accept it. Enclose us $50, and the pack
age will be sent by return mail, the result Of
which, We confidently think, will be salts
factory to you.
Yours, truly. CoRBIN l. CO.,
Box 100 Post Office, Baltimore, Md.
n. B.-Prize tickets or certificates cashed
as soon as returned.
ESPoRT, Mo-, May lO, 1907.
Ny Dear Sirs:-Your very kind favor is
received, contents duly noted, and properly
appreciated.
am overwhelmed with q sense of obliga-
ton to your unaccountable partiality to an
entire stranger, and | an puzzled to guess
in what manner | have recommended myself
ts your favor. Are you smitten by my per-
sonal beauty-dazzled by the refulgent beams
of my rising 'star"-or have you heard of
certain little circumstances in my personal
history going to show a large degree of con-
fidence, c~redulity, %greenness, or whatever
you may call it, rendering me a fair subject
for financial experiments? But whatever
may be the moving cause impelling you to
this generosity, be assured your disinterestei
action is properly priced, and your generous
proposal readily accepted. You may send
that Every finely arranged package" by re-
turn mail, and such is my confidence in its
success and its well-won title of the lucky
package" that do not deem it necessary to
enclose any funds to pay for it. You may
retain 500 out of the $3.50 which it is almost
certain to draw-and if it should Jas it pro-
badly may) draw the capital prize of S4O,-
600, you may retain another $40 as a slight
testimonial of my distinguished considera-
ton. Should it happen, per bare possibility,
that the package fails to draw a three num-
Der prize" you need not send the other pack
age, but retain it as payment for the first.
You say you have frequently sent me your
circulars, and you have often thought it
strange that you had not heard from me. |
am truly sorry that my remissness has caused
you any uneasiness of mind, and my apollo
gy is that | did not know the circulars were
from a partial friend and admirer, but, so
far as | gave them any thought at all, had
supposed they were from some Peter Funk
or bogus speculator, of which you know, dear
Corbin & Co., there are many in the Eastern
cities. AS a general thing, | pay no attention
to circulars unless ordered to be published in
my paper, and accompanied by the rhino or
spondulicks.
Please send me a lock of your hair before
the State officials get all Of it, and oblige
your beloved friend, Ii. NJ. MCARTY.
p. ST not deemed inquisitive, dear Cor
bin & Co., let me know lin contidence) to
how many hundreds throughout the country
your expansive benevolence has induced you
to send duplicate letters of the one sent me
II Nj. NJ.