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Bell Perth Scrip - Correspondence & Commentary on the issue

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Bell Perth Scrip - Correspondence & Commentary on the issue
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A small folio of material pertaining to the W & J Bell Perth Scrip issues of the 1830, as follows: (1) November, 1888 hand-written letter and cover from Frank S. Meighen (then only 18 years old, but later a distinguished army officer and patron of the arts, etc.), to a friend in Perth, Ontario. In the letter, Meighen discusses the collecting of Stamps, Notes and Eggs(!), and enquired about the availability of the Perth Bell notes, on behalf of a renowned "authority on coins" in Montreal. (2) an early mimeograph(?) of the article "The W. & J. Bell (Perth, Upper Canada) Fractional Currency", dated March 5, 1930 and signed by the Archibald M. Campbell (grandson of Captain William Bell); (3) an October, 1942 letter to "Mr. Campbell", referencing an article in the Perth Courier, speaking briefly on his/her family connections to Perth, and seemingly confirming a donation of two Bell notes to the recipient's museum. (4) an original newspaper clipping on the Bell scrip entitled "Founders of Perth Made Money Easily", date unknown but seemingly 1930's or 1940's. Although not a scholarly lot, an interesting group of archival material for the serious Bell scrip enthusiast, with the Meighen letter being of some historical note in its own right.