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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 06-25-2011 09:16 PM and an unrecorded (to my knowledge) partnership. quote: Worcester April 30 1836 Messrs J. Bigelow & Co Gent. I write [unreadable] informing you that the store is so nearly completed that it will be expedient for one of you to come up as soon as Tuesday next for the purpose of taking an account of stock & consummation of our copartnership. We should be happy to see Mrs Bigelow with you. I will be ready to go immediately about taking the account Tuesday morning so as not to detain you more than 2 or 3 days at most — if I hear nothing from you presently I will expect you at this time Yours very Respy Rufus D. Dunbar The co-partnership was apparently of short duration, as Dunbar joined with Simeon N. Story as DUNBAR & STORY in 1838. [This message has been edited by wev (edited 06-28-2011).] IP: Logged
bascall Posts: 1629 Registered: Nov 99	posted 06-26-2011 12:17 AM The tentative identification for Rufus's son strikes me as being confirmable. Edward H Dunbar is a jeweler and watch repairer in mid 1880's Westerly, Rhode Island directories at the address shown on the trade card. A George H Dunbar who I take as Edward's brother is listed at that same business address as a salesman. Edward is found later working as a jeweler in Medfield and then Norwood, Massachusetts. IP: Logged
wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 06-26-2011 12:21 AM I came to the same conclusion just after the last build. IP: Logged
bascall Posts: 1629 Registered: Nov 99	posted 06-26-2011 12:35 AM George is with another brother, Albert, in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1900. They're both insurance clerks. So it appears George never took to his father's trade. [This message has been edited by bascall (edited 06-26-2011).] IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 06-26-2011 11:55 AM Interesting yes, and a learning experience for me. I have never seen the word respy before. I checked my very old, 6 inch thick, Oxford dictionary and then online Webster's and other online dictionaries and they all don't have Respy. The online Urban Dictionary does: quote: posted by by PeteM on Apr 18, 2007 Respectfully; chiefly used in the US military culture as a closure to memos. Note that "Respy" is used to show respect for the persons rank, not necessarily the person, and can close a memo to both a superior and a subordinate. Skipper, Enclosed please find this morning's operational status report. Respy, Lt. Jones respectfully closure memo memorandum military I do see that Respy was used often in the 1800's. A quick search and Respy shows up in the handful of correspondence from circa 1860's. The use of Respy does seem to be between military or officials; so the online Urban Dictionary may have it right. IP: Logged
wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 06-26-2011 03:39 PM It is actually Resp(superior y), which is not uncommon in the various 19th letters I have. I also find Y(rs) tr(y)-- Yours truly Y(r) Ob(t) Serv(t) -- Your Obedient Servant Aff(y) Yr(s) -- Affectionately yours T(y) Fr(d) -- Thy friend and other variant contractions. With blotty ink and a scratchy, hasty hand, it is sometimes a heck of a job figuring out what is meant. IP: Logged
June Martin Forum Master Posts: 1326 Registered: Apr 93	posted 06-26-2011 09:22 PM Hah, an early form of texting. Who knew? IP: Logged
wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 06-26-2011 11:41 PM Almost nothing new is new; the package may have been changed, but the contents, examined closely, remain pretty much the same. I often feel the same. IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 06-28-2011 05:37 AM WEV, I must admit I am unsure what "... Resp(superior y) ..." is/means. But it has me thinking. Right now I am of a mind to interpret "respy" as an abbreviation to mean "respectfully" or "respectfully yours" Might this also be correct? IP: Logged
wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 06-28-2011 09:22 AM IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 06-28-2011 12:47 PM Duh! Oh I see. Sup something the forum's code doesn't do. I get it now. Thanks IP: Logged
swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 06-28-2011 01:30 PM The forum code doesn't support superscripts? IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 06-28-2011 01:39 PM No. Forum code tags are here. IP: Logged

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