Year: 1867

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New York, December 29th, 1866.


nEAR SIR We have como to the conclusion to
increase our business in your part Of the country
by adding TO the number Of our correspondents,
and feeling convinced that the safest and most
satisfactory plan Of doing 50 is to send prize of
few thousand dollars to some discreet and reliable
person, who will have no objection to show the
money and state the fact to his acquaintanccs that
thu prize money was drawn by lucky Investment
at our Office. We have therefore selected you as
the party more likely than any one else to aid us
in our enterprise and make you the following lib
cral and extraordinary proposition


Send us $40 TO pay the managers Of the lotteries
for asplenddly arranged package Of Eight Tickets,
which we have carefully selected and labeled, sub
ect to your order, in the enclosed Grand Scheme to
be be drawn on the plan Of the Royal Havana
Lottery. And that you may not suppose that there
is any deception in Il, we inform you that the prize
money does not come out Of our pockets, but out
Of that Of the Lottery Managers, and We shall not
lose by sending yoa few thousand dollars, but be
gamers by the increased amount Of business we
shall expect from your neighbrrhood, when you
shall show the "Grccn Backs and make il well
known that they are the proceeds Of prize drawn
at our Office. We make this offer to you in strict
confidence. The proposal is plain. Wearc to send
package OF tickets for chance 10 draw few
thousand dollars. You are TO show the money as
above stated The result win be that hundreds Of
dollars will be sont to Us for tickets. You may be
the gamer Of few thousand dollars. We shall be
the gamers by our sales and the parties who send
for tickets may be gamers by drawing prizes Of
different amounts as specified on the scheme. Ey-
cry one who sends, will Of course expect to draw a
prize, not knowing the offer we made privately %
you. And to set at rest any doubt you may have
Of our sincerity, we hereby bind ourselves to for
ward you another package in our brilliant Extra
Lottery for nothing II the FIRST we send does not
draw you, clear Of all expenses. two thousand dol
lars We mention this merely to show that II is to
our interest to send you prize. Use the enclosed
envelope in sending the $40, and state whether we
shall send you a draft on your nearest bank, or
the amount in "Grcen Backs by mail, which will
perhaps suit you better BE careful to write in
plain hand. your post Office, county and State.
Wafer or seal your letter 90 that It will not
opea in the maif Please consider this letter strict
" private and confidential, and send your order
without delay.


Very sincerely yours,


T. J. FunNiss Co.,


No. Cedar street, N. Y.


The official drawing Of the above Lotteries will
be sent you as soon as over, and is also published
in the New York Herald and Times


0Iice hours from A. NJ, to P. NJ.


1t will be seen by the concluding
clause Of the above letter, that we are
requested to "consider il MS strictly
private and confidential" But over
whelmcd as we are with gratitude for
this timely "streak of luck" and anx.
ious to extend the business of our gen
erous friends, and being satisfied that
innate modesty alone induced them to
require privacy at our hands, we give
to this noble act of generos-
ity, feeling that it is no violation OF
that confidence which should always
be respected, in horn.