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Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 1

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From Joshua Green
Green, Joshua RTP
1750 April 18: One oClock P:M: Dear Sr:,

In answr. to your Epistle;1Nothing would be more agreeable to me2 than a Visit to Alma Mater, (escpecially if accompanied by one whom I so highly value as Yourself;) & should be glad to give you an ans[we]r in the affimative but affairs are so unhappily situated at present I cannot. Will wait on You at your Lodgings 5 oClock if I can but tarry a purpose and being in hast must now subscribe Your friend & Servt.,

JOSHUA GREEN

Friend Andrew3 I beleive is yet in Town.

RC ; addressed: β€œTo Mr: Robert Treat Paine these"; endorsed.

1.

Not located.

2.

Joshua Green (1731–1806), a classmate of RTP at Harvard and a member of the Phinphilenici, was to become a successful Boston merchant and Son of Liberty (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 13:380-381).

3.

Andrew Oliver (1731–1799).